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Northern Ireland has one of the strictest alcohol licensing systems in Europe, wherein anyone wanting to open a pub or off-sales must buy an existing licence from another business which has closed.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

He’s always on the lookout for situations wherein a government or a central bank makes a mistake that can be exploited.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

Merrilee Heifetz, agent to the Estate and to Butler while she was alive, agreed that the author never envisioned a world wherein she had the massive following she does today.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

The illusion awakens him to a new means of looking at “nature and culture, the given and the constructed,” wherein these supposed binaries collapse together and exist simultaneously.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Last of all she borrowed Aphrodite’s girdle wherein were all her enchantments, and with this added charm she appeared before Zeus.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton