whence it came
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Colorado is believed to be particularly vulnerable to a defection back to the conference from whence it came to the Pac-12 in 2011.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
She whirled around to look at it on the ground and whipped back to stare, mouth agape, into the audience whence it came.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2022
They're a clever touch, but Bravo's subtler choices distinguish "Zola" as a cannily interpretive work evocative of the medium from whence it came.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2021
When it had enough, the cat returned to the shadowy tunnel whence it came.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
All that scientists know is the cosmos was spawned from nothing, and will return to the nothing from whence it came.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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