- plural of why.
whys
Example Sentences
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There were no wheres or whys to what came out of his iPad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
You don't know the whos and the whats and the whys of how we came to be and how our relationship fell apart to get us to that point.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2024
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
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
We may never be able to answer the whys their act provoked.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
