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...but forces fall out of something - electromagnetic interactions, for example. As an engineer, I am inclined to call something a force if it goes on the "force" side of the equation in the domain I'm modeling, and not worry about whether to call it "real".
(Then again, as an engineer, I rarely need to exceed Newtonian mechanics.)