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
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
When it had enough, the cat returned to the shadowy tunnel whence it came.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2019
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
