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whereas

[hwair-, wair-az] / ʰwɛər-, wɛərˈæz /


CONJUNCTION
when in fact
Synonyms


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Pilgrim’s Pride is the second-largest U.S. chicken company and focuses on poultry products, whereas JBS has a sprawling portfolio encompassing a wider range of proteins.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Bottom line: An individual with significant assets can still qualify for financial assistance, whereas someone with low personal income might receive little to no subsidy if their household falls into a higher income bracket.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

"In France and Italy, they are hiring, whereas in Germany, we are only cutting jobs," Bremm lamented, saying that governments in Paris and Rome seemed to be lobbying the parent company more aggressively.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

“My commitment to the community had only been a year … whereas they had invested so much and lost so much.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Hadn’t he just been in sunlight, whereas now he sat in the tree’s shade?

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

A frivolous, meaningless declaration filled with whereases and therefores to pretend our boys in blue were winners?

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2020

Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted an eloquent joint resolution with many whereases describing the brutality of the Spanish conflict, the danger of its dragging the U. S. into war. etc., etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

After four resonant whereases, the resolution reached the two sore spots.

From Time Magazine Archive

I mean to say, I bet you got your lawyer to write him a letter full of whereases, peradventures, and parties of the first part, and so forth.

From Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

I forgot to make any speech, but went right at the whereases at once.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck




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