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The illusion awakens him to a new means of looking at “nature and culture, the given and the constructed,” wherein these supposed binaries collapse together and exist simultaneously.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

A European Commission notice from 2021 defines a conflict of interest as a situation wherein a "financial actor's" impartiality is compromised "for reasons involving... economic interest or any other direct or indirect personal interest".

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

But Ella’s family life has always been chaotic, as we see in flashbacks to her teenage years, wherein our narrator describes how Ella experiences seeing other happy families — as a stab in the heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Some countries delineate air identification defence zones, wherein they require foreign planes to identify themselves.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green