whence
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2024
You may be wondering just whence that staggering valuation arises, then.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 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
Venice “sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose,” the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
Sir Ector stood on the top of a rick, whence he could see what everybody was doing, and shouted commands all over the two-hundred-acre field, and grew purple in the face.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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