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wherefrom

[wair-fruhm, -from, hwair-] / wɛərˈfrʌm, -ˈfrɒm, ʰwɛər- /


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Including schools of education, wherefrom these ideas have begun to influence public schools.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2022

The incense of reeking garbage, wherefrom the alchemy of sunlight is disengaging impalpable poison, arises up forever.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2013

Bridges' "Nightingales" can stand with any of them: Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom Ye learn your song: Where are those starry woods?

From Time Magazine Archive

But there was in the roof above the font a hole made by a mason wherefrom to hang a lamp from a star of gilded wood.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

The Duke was engaged in making light of the thanks and reproaches showered upon him for going to Liverpool, wherefrom the Senator guessed that that singular proceeding had been unknown beforehand to the house-party.

From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon