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whereas

[hwair-, wair-az] / ʰwɛər-, wɛərˈæz /


CONJUNCTION
when in fact
Synonyms


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Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams' lack of fitness has forced manager Luis de la Fuente to tweak Spain's style - the European champions created chaos down the wings, whereas the current side prioritise control.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index declined 1.9%, whereas Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.2%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

That’s followed by Singapore at 63%, whereas, despite leading the world in investment into the technology, the U.S. ranks 21st, with just less than one in three having adopted AI.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

Three males shared the same mitochondrial lineage, whereas three females each had a different one.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

The cover color was almost an exact match, but hers had the sparkly gold-bug, whereas the one Hollister was selling had an oval portrait of Poe himself.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

A frivolous, meaningless declaration filled with whereases and therefores to pretend our boys in blue were winners?

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2020

Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted an eloquent joint resolution with many whereases describing the brutality of the Spanish conflict, the danger of its dragging the U. S. into war. etc., etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

After four resonant whereases, the resolution reached the two sore spots.

From Time Magazine Archive

There ain't but three whereases, because Sallie Green copied them out of a paper when Mr. Joynes died, just changing to suit a live person, and the last one comes way down.

From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley

I forgot to make any speech, but went right at the whereases at once.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)




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