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For management, dividends create future expectations whereas buybacks can be turned on and off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

They’re especially helpful for postural control — you have to maintain good posture to stand on one leg — whereas dynamic exercises mean you’re maintaining control while moving through space.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

Bull, pacing in front of Virgil’s desk, brought a restlessness and a fever to command, a yeoman’s rigidity, and a genius for inspiration, whereas Virgil had the natural instincts of a general.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

After four resonant whereases, the resolution reached the two sore spots.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, after they get through with their whereases they face the music squarely, and certify to “the condition of general and complete peace.”

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount

There were a great many "herebys" and "whereases" and "agreements" in it.

From The Girl from Montana by Grace Livingston Hill