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
Venice “sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose,” the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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