whence
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You may be wondering just whence that staggering valuation arises, then.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2024
He sensibly didn’t advertise here, where people might actually know the terrain, but in the East and in Europe, whence no one could eyeball the merchandise.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
Downes suspects Bruiser’s ilk made their way back east into the North Cascades from whence they hail.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2023
Venice “sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose,” the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
I had heard it—where, or whence, for ever impossible to know!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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