Thesaurus results for WHEREFORE

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adverb

ˈ(h)wer-ˌfȯr

Definition of wherefore next

as in therefore

for this or that reason it was getting late, and wherefore we decided to move on

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wherefore

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noun

as in reason

something (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thing demanded to know the whys and wherefores for the decision

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But none of those 265 pages of wherefores and whereases on the sports authority website are legally binding. —

Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024 Eschewing cheap shots, McBride favors a careful, winding excavation – reaching into history for the whys and wherefores of his novels’ crowded casts, while delivering whopper stories with electric finales. —

Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023 Soccer, though, did not waste time wondering about the whys and wherefores. —

Ahmed Al Omran, New York Times, 13 July 2023 The political whys and wherefores are important — and might be left to another piece. —

Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2023 As in most of Tim and Eric’s sketch humor, there are few whys and wherefores. —

Austin Considine, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020 Julian Fellowes, a master writer who understands so well all the peculiarities of time and place, manners and historical significance of the whys and wherefores of his fictional inhabitants, is to be applauded. —

Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019 In addition to gleaning the why and wherefore behind America’s foundational document, teenage listeners will meet up with the Declaration of Independence and a roster of seminal Supreme Court decisions. —

Louis Bayard, New York Times, 28 May 2018 The book casts its spell in revealing the whys and wherefores of the killings, as investigated by Burke’s onetime high school classmate, Rob Barrett, a Boston FBI agent whom Burke likes nothing better than to humiliate. —

Lloyd Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018

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Growing up in an area with a lot of money and therefore rich stay-at-home partners who fill their voids shopping.

Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
However, omega-3 mediators only come into play when the body is fighting inflammation and are therefore often difficult to detect during the initiation of inflammation, said study coauthor Dr. Ganesh Halade, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of South Florida.

Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024