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wherefrom

[wair-fruhm, -from, hwair-] / wɛərˈfrʌm, -ˈfrɒm, ʰwɛər- /


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Including schools of education, wherefrom these ideas have begun to influence public schools.

From Washington Post Apr. 17, 2022

The incense of reeking garbage, wherefrom the alchemy of sunlight is disengaging impalpable poison, arises up forever.

From New York Times Jul. 26, 2013

Bridges' "Nightingales" can stand with any of them: Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom Ye learn your song: Where are those starry woods?

From Time Magazine Archive

It was, moreover, a contest for superiority between the ordnance of Europe and America, whilst the result furnishes us with data wherefrom to estimate the relative advantages of rifled and smooth-bore cannon at short range.

From An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864 by Edge, Frederick Milnes

"May I be permitted to inquire," said Josephine, roguishly, "how Mr. Robert Forrester came to be the bearer of this note, and wherefrom springs his intense interest?"

From The Secret Toll by Thorne, Paul And Mabel




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