why
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That’s why his five fellow umpires made a point of patting him on the back or shoulder before jogging to their positions for the first pitch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
It's also partly why it is quite so delightful to watch - as friendships unravel, and former co-stars turn on each other.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Gerjon Premtaj was transporting frozen vegetables from Mexico to Pennsylvania, and sees firsthand why diesel prices show up in grocery costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The question of why she did what she did may remain unanswered.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Then I tell her the truth about why he’s so short on money, and how he lets Jonah skip school so he can go to work with him.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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I get to do songs that I wasn’t able to do on Olivia’s set and really get into the whys of it all,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Players for the fourth-seeded Reign shared their individual whys that propelled them to the club’s first championship final since 2015.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2023
Pregnancy is some of the most personal experiences a woman can have – so to constantly be speculating about all the whys strips a woman of her right to privacy.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
So, for all the whos, whats, whys, whens, and wheres, look at the backside of “Hogs and Cattle” every Sunday.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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