whence
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Grizzly populations only just recovered whence they came, now leave them alone.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
You may be wondering just whence that staggering valuation arises, then.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2024
He sensibly didn’t advertise here, where people might actually know the terrain, but in the East and in Europe, whence no one could eyeball the merchandise.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
Venice “sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose,” the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing whence
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