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why

[hwahy, wahy] / ʰwaɪ, waɪ /
NOUN
reason
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But if every stock offers an equally good bet, why would we put most of our money on a small number of them, like Nvidia?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

At these prices, it’s easy to see why.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

And they gave me a wig and I’m still not really clear why I’m wigged, other than I asked for it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

"And now we see that it also can explain why our planet is habitable. By extension, it is reasonable to expect that other Earth-sized bodies circling other stars would also have water and possibly life."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

It’s a little predictable, but I get why Candace picked it.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

One note for Miles, like Billie Holiday, like Cindy says, that’s enough to understand all the whys and all the reasons why it’s sacred to be alive.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

"We have decided to study in great detail the hows and whys of why premature birth affects the developing brain," he says.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025

You don't know the whos and the whats and the whys of how we came to be and how our relationship fell apart to get us to that point.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2024

Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023

Well, since you’re referring to them as nouns, just follow the normal rules for making nouns into plurals: Ups and downs and ins and outs, Forevers and nevers and whys.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner


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