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whys

[hwahyz, wahyz] / ʰwaɪz, waɪz /
NOUN
whys and wherefores
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One note for Miles, like Billie Holiday, like Cindy says, that’s enough to understand all the whys and all the reasons why it’s sacred to be alive.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

Players for the fourth-seeded Reign shared their individual whys that propelled them to the club’s first championship final since 2015.

From Seattle Times Nov. 11, 2023

So this book goes into all the whys.

From Salon Oct. 31, 2023

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




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