as in inevitably
because of necessity
we must, perforce, deal with this issue immediately, as procrastination is not an option
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Recent Examples of perforce
Harder, because both were (or still are, in Bissinger’s case) received in the world as heterosexual, successful, wealthy white men—an armor whose cracking is perforce traumatic, shameful, and almost always hidden.
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Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2019
Someone who loses his career is perforce no longer in an alliance with the employer.
—Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
Take the Best Revival of a Musical category, which this year will perforce be a showdown between Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
—Adam Green, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
The search zone is the creation of the ATSB, and is perforce somewhat arbitrary.
—Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2019
Someone who loses his career is perforce no longer in an alliance with the employer.
—Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
Take the Best Revival of a Musical category, which this year will perforce be a showdown between Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
—Adam Green, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
The search zone is the creation of the ATSB, and is perforce somewhat arbitrary.
—Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perforce
Adverb
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Critics also point out that even though Reflect Orbital intends to illuminate targeted areas, the satellites’ movement will cause the light beams to sweep over large regions of Earth, inevitably.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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His roving life inevitably prompts questions.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Raises aren’t even necessarily off the table at organizations that are downsizing, according to some experts.—
Cathy Bussewitz,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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Christopher O’Leary, a former senior executive at the FBI who now works for The Soufan Group, an intelligence and security consultancy, said that pulling agents into immigration or policing city streets necessarily means dropping other cases.—
Allison Gordon,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Perforce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perforce. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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