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when

[hwen, wen, hwuhn, wuhn] / ʰwɛn, wɛn, ʰwən, wən /


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"When you are selected, you feel that all your hard work was worth it. Years of effort finally made sense."

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

When Todd Haynes made his 1995 masterpiece “Safe”—which cast Julianne Moore as a Los Angeles housewife under siege by myriad illnesses—environmental disease was an enigma.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

When Project Glasswing launched, some critics accused Anthropic of overhyping the threat to attract attention.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

When this becomes a crisis is anyone’s guess.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

When she gets home that night, Joey draws pictures of everything—the fortifications, the secret tunnel, the barracks—and delivers her report to the guerrillas.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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