whys

Example Sentences

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Lewis said she wanted to “figure it out” on her own and reduce the environmental toxins, emotional stress and “all the whys of cancer” that contribute to the onset of the disease.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

Players for the fourth-seeded Reign shared their individual whys that propelled them to the club’s first championship final since 2015.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2023

Pregnancy is some of the most personal experiences a woman can have – so to constantly be speculating about all the whys strips a woman of her right to privacy.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2023

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

We may never be able to answer the whys their act provoked.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz