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whence

[hwens, wens] / ʰwɛns, wɛns /
CONJUNCTION
from what or which place
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You may be wondering just whence that staggering valuation arises, then.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2024

You may have looked at this strange, jolly person and wondered whence he came and what kind of career could have sustained him to this point.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024

Downes suspects Bruiser’s ilk made their way back east into the North Cascades from whence they hail.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2023

“From whence came this woman’s strategic political genius?”

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

It was the same vehicle whence, a year ago, I had alighted one summer evening on this very spot—how desolate, and hopeless, and objectless!

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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