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
Does the Idea folder ever go back to whence it came?
From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2022
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
Now, a show that emerged from the archives is returning whence it came, for — as Dickinson might have put it — all Eternity.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021
No one noticed the moon-faced boy in the flat cap, or the honeybee that drifted from his mouth, tested the sooty air, then dove back from whence it came.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
