whence
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Grizzly populations only just recovered whence they came, now leave them alone.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
You may be wondering just whence that staggering valuation arises, then.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2024
You may have looked at this strange, jolly person and wondered whence he came and what kind of career could have sustained him to this point.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024
Venice “sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose,” the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
Who are the Japanese, when and whence did they come to Japan, and how did they evolve their unique speech?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing whence
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