whereas
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The company intends to start delivering more than 50% of cumulative free cash flow back to shareholders, whereas its previous target called for “within 50%.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
"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
"People's lives have been put on hold, so whereas normally you would plan things with your family, especially through the school holidays, this has been restrictive to a lot of families."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Lyra was lighter than the rucksack but awkwarder, because the rucksack’s weight was taken on the shoulders, whereas carrying Lyra, Malcolm soon remembered, involved both arms.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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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
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After four resonant whereases, the resolution reached the two sore spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Besides Philip hated the copying of pleadings, and he was certain that a life of "whereases" and "aforesaids" and whipping the devil round the stump, would be intolerable.
From The Gilded Age, Part 2. by Charles Dudley Warner
It will be observed that they sugar-coated their certificate with a lot of whereases.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount