whys
Example Sentences
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Appearing before the Democratic faithful at the state party convention in San Francisco, hopefuls offered the whys and wherefore of their candidacies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026
"Why did no-one tell the young people to get out? Why did the council not make the proper checks? There are too many whys."
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
You don't know the whos and the whats and the whys of how we came to be and how our relationship fell apart to get us to that point.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2024
Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
For all the whos, whats, whys, whens, and wheres, both here and abroad, refer to the Manifest Herald.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
