whence
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When he realized whence I’d lifted the dinner party bon mot, he gave me grief for my cheaply bought erudition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me—not in the external world.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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