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whence

[hwens, wens] / ʰwɛns, wɛns /
CONJUNCTION
from what or which place
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Example Sentences

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After that, whence music, a protester might ask.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 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

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

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

It tipped downwards in earthy showers, back into the trench in the Abbey grounds whence it had first come.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques