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whence

[hwens, wens] / ʰwɛns, wɛns /
CONJUNCTION
from what or which place
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After that, whence music, a protester might ask.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2024

You may be wondering just whence that staggering valuation arises, then.

From Slate Mar. 28, 2024

Colorado is believed to be particularly vulnerable to a defection back to the conference from whence it came to the Pac-12 in 2011.

From Seattle Times Jun. 20, 2023

“From whence came this woman’s strategic political genius?”

From New York Times May 24, 2023

No. If the answers were anywhere, they were in the south and east of the continent of Namaa, on the far side of the Elmuthaleth, whence no one had ever returned.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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