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Example Sentences
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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
DeSheim made a speech wherein he said that he was not at the theater to direct it, but to help the Negroes to direct it.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.