hence
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Those offences carry a minimum six-game ban, hence the need for a different category.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
The latter aren’t presidential appointees and hence are beyond Mr. Trump’s reach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Retail investors have limited opportunities to get in on trendy private companies that are disrupting the U.S. economy, hence the initial mania.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
Like that which cycles through Pachelbel’s ‘Canon’, these sequences were driven by the direction of travel of the bass line, giving forward momentum to the music, hence the name ‘harmonic progression’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing hence
"The Road Not Taken"
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