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whence

conjunction as in from what or which place

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Now just another member of the Democratic House ranks — but still wielding enormous clout — she and other party pillars helped maneuver the president into the corner from whence he abruptly quit the race in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris.

The radio and TV stations whence come the music and the news could get even more anonymized: Many cars are coming off the assembly line missing that democratizing medium of the 20th century, AM radio.

Here’s the story from whence this pearl-clutching about Harris stems: For roughly one year in the mid-1990s when she was 29 years old, Harris dated 60-year-old San Francisco politician Willie Brown, who was technically married but had been separated from his wife since the early ’80s.

From Slate

Biden will become a reminder of the fragile but fundamental principle at the heart of our republic, that in this country the people are sovereign and those we elect are merely temporary holders of that trust who, when the time comes, give that power back from whence it came, to all of us: We the People.

From Slate

Grizzly populations only just recovered whence they came, now leave them alone.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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