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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

The porter-bar, although merely a tool whereby to handle the mass, forms practically a base wherefrom to build up the shaft.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

But when the teeth are to be cast upon the wheel the pattern wherefrom the wheel is to be moulded must have the teeth proportioned and shaped to proper curve and form.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua




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