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. 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
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  • Profit and sustainability rules (PSR), inevitably, were a frequent topic, but there were plenty of others, too, ranging from the intricacies of football accounting to the broader question of why NFL teams are routinely deemed more valuable than clubs from what is the world’s most popular sport.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Another group of kids resolves to find out what happened to their missing classmate, which leads them inevitably to the town's sewers.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
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  • At a moment when many people’s thoughts and feelings about antisemitism are intense without necessarily being intelligible to others, and when accusations of antisemitism are tremendously forceful, Mazower’s book makes an immense contribution.
    Book Marks September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But now, education is necessarily a lower priority in Gaza than safety, food, water, and medical care.
    Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Perforce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perforce. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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