whence it came
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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
Police, who saw the festive side, said officers intercepted to "shepherd" it back to the enclosure from whence it came, although "not via Bethlehem".
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2021
They're a clever touch, but Bravo's subtler choices distinguish "Zola" as a cannily interpretive work evocative of the medium from whence it came.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2021
Thus equipped, it heads off for the Sargasso Sea whence it came and where it will breed — or is thought to breed, as no mating eels have ever been discovered.
From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2020
All that scientists know is the cosmos was spawned from nothing, and will return to the nothing from whence it came.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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