whence

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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

In fact, the power of the Franks was always viewed by the Greeks and Romans with a jealous eye, whence the Greek proverb ‘Have the Frank for your friend, but not for your neighbor.’

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

By slow stages they reached Philadelphia, where William Still hastily recorded their names, and the plantations whence they had come, and something of the life they had led in slavery.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry