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forces

/ˈfoɹ.sɪz/ noun B1
  1. Troops.
  2. The orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production.
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“But,” said he, “so long as I do remain in Paris, and nothing forces me to quit it, do you mean to tell me that I may rely on receiving the sum you just now mentioned to me?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 597 · C1
But these forces increase as we go higher, so that we have a spiral which in defiance of reason rests upon the apex and not on the base.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 162 · C1
Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little?
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 28 · B2
Mortimer’s surmise should be correct, and we are dealing with forces outside the ordinary laws of Nature, there is an end of our investigation.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 32 · C1

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