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whence

[hwens, wens] / ʰwɛns, wɛns /
CONJUNCTION
from what or which place
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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

Venice “sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose,” the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023

Her only outings were her weekly trips to Sunday mass at the Church of Saint Sebastian, which was two blocks from her house, whence she was conveyed in a wheelchair by Ferula and the maid.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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