Wherein
adverb
In what or which situation, place, or respect.
We came to a town wherein he had once lived.
Often appears as...
- a situation wherein
- a case wherein
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Formal
conjunction
In which (used to refer to something the details of which are described or can be deduced).
He prepared an elaborate system wherein historical events were divided into epochs.
Often appears as...
- a system wherein
- a context wherein
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adverb
In what or which situation, place, or respect.
We came to a town wherein he had once lived.
Often appears as...
- a situation wherein
- a case wherein
Usage tips
Formal
conjunction
In which (used to refer to something the details of which are described or can be deduced).
He prepared an elaborate system wherein historical events were divided into epochs.
Often appears as...
- a system wherein
- a context wherein
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Usage
Use 'wherein' to introduce the specific situation or place related to the context.
She lived in a society wherein equality was of utmost importance.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Marker
'Wherein' often marks the detailed part of a story or explanation.
He began to explain the process wherein each step is crucial.
Pro Tip 3/3Singular Reference
It refers to one specific place or situation when explaining or recounting events.
The house, wherein all our family reunions occurred, holds many memories.
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Usage
Use 'wherein' to introduce the specific situation or place related to the context.
She lived in a society wherein equality was of utmost importance.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Marker
'Wherein' often marks the detailed part of a story or explanation.
He began to explain the process wherein each step is crucial.
Pro Tip 3/3Singular Reference
It refers to one specific place or situation when explaining or recounting events.
The house, wherein all our family reunions occurred, holds many memories.
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Usage
Use 'wherein' to introduce the specific situation or place related to the context.
She lived in a society wherein equality was of utmost importance.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Marker
'Wherein' often marks the detailed part of a story or explanation.
He began to explain the process wherein each step is crucial.
Pro Tip 3/3Singular Reference
It refers to one specific place or situation when explaining or recounting events.
The house, wherein all our family reunions occurred, holds many memories.
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Video examples
Majora Carter: Greening...
and in many cities around the country. Red-lining was used by banks, wherein certain sections of the city, including ours, were deemed off-limits to any sort of investment. Many landlords believed it was more profitable to torch their buildings and collect insurance money rather than to sell under those conditions -- dead or injured former tenants notwithstanding.
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
in the United States, wherein they tried to understand how we can look for life elsewhere in the universe, okay, especially if that life is very different from life on Earth. If we went to another planet and we thought there might be life there, how could we even recognize it as life? Well, they came up with three very general
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Greening the ghetto -...
cities around the country redlining was used by banks wherein certain sections of the city including ours were deemed off-limits to any sort of investment many landlords believed it was more profitable to torch their buildings and collect insurance money rather than a cell under those conditions dead or
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The difference between...
There sits a statesman, strong, unbiased, wise; another Daniel Webster, silver-tongued. A doctor sits beside him, whose quick, steady hand may mend a bone, or stem the life-blood's flow. And there a builder; upward rise the arch of a church he builds, wherein that minister may speak the word of God,
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Romulus Whitaker: The...
This is basically a base wherein we are trying to gather and learn virtually everything about the biodiversity of this incredibly complex forest system, and try to hang on to what's there, make sure the water sources are protected and kept clean, and of course, having a good time too.
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Why I'm done trying to...
So I've been really blessed as an actor. I've built a really wonderful fan base, really, really sweet and engaged, and so I decided to use my social platform as kind of this Trojan horse wherein I could create a daily practice of authenticity and vulnerability.
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Does money make you...
as a metaphor for understanding society and its hierarchical structure, wherein some people have a lot of wealth and a lot of status, and a lot of people don't; they have a lot less wealth and a lot less status and a lot less access to valued resources.
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Should you be able to...
Usually these questions take the form of a super-long paragraph, like a whole page long with lots and lots of clauses, "wherein this" and "therefore that." We submitted perhaps the shortest question presented ever. Four Are human genes patentable?
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Robert Thurman:...
wherein compassion -- "karuna," it is called -- is defined as, "the sensitivity to another's suffering and the corresponding will to free the other from that suffering." It pairs closely with love, which is the will for the other to be happy,
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The power of the placebo...
The answer lies in the placebo effect, an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapies that aren't supposed to have an effect, and are often fake, miraculously make people feel better.
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Majora Carter: Greening...
and in many cities around the country. Red-lining was used by banks, wherein certain sections of the city, including ours, were deemed off-limits to any sort of investment. Many landlords believed it was more profitable to torch their buildings and collect insurance money rather than to sell under those conditions -- dead or injured former tenants notwithstanding.
Video examples
Martin Hanczyc: The line...
in the United States, wherein they tried to understand how we can look for life elsewhere in the universe, okay, especially if that life is very different from life on Earth. If we went to another planet and we thought there might be life there, how could we even recognize it as life? Well, they came up with three very general
Video examples
Greening the ghetto -...
cities around the country redlining was used by banks wherein certain sections of the city including ours were deemed off-limits to any sort of investment many landlords believed it was more profitable to torch their buildings and collect insurance money rather than a cell under those conditions dead or
Video examples
The difference between...
There sits a statesman, strong, unbiased, wise; another Daniel Webster, silver-tongued. A doctor sits beside him, whose quick, steady hand may mend a bone, or stem the life-blood's flow. And there a builder; upward rise the arch of a church he builds, wherein that minister may speak the word of God,
Video examples
Romulus Whitaker: The...
This is basically a base wherein we are trying to gather and learn virtually everything about the biodiversity of this incredibly complex forest system, and try to hang on to what's there, make sure the water sources are protected and kept clean, and of course, having a good time too.
Video examples
Why I'm done trying to...
So I've been really blessed as an actor. I've built a really wonderful fan base, really, really sweet and engaged, and so I decided to use my social platform as kind of this Trojan horse wherein I could create a daily practice of authenticity and vulnerability.
Video examples
Does money make you...
as a metaphor for understanding society and its hierarchical structure, wherein some people have a lot of wealth and a lot of status, and a lot of people don't; they have a lot less wealth and a lot less status and a lot less access to valued resources.
Video examples
Should you be able to...
Usually these questions take the form of a super-long paragraph, like a whole page long with lots and lots of clauses, "wherein this" and "therefore that." We submitted perhaps the shortest question presented ever. Four Are human genes patentable?
Video examples
Robert Thurman:...
wherein compassion -- "karuna," it is called -- is defined as, "the sensitivity to another's suffering and the corresponding will to free the other from that suffering." It pairs closely with love, which is the will for the other to be happy,
Video examples
The power of the placebo...
The answer lies in the placebo effect, an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapies that aren't supposed to have an effect, and are often fake, miraculously make people feel better.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese Soldier
The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
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Amyra Dastur
Indian Actress
Bascially, I want to do movies wherein even the girl's character actually has a part. If you want me to do glamorous roles, that's fine. But you have to make sure the character is good.
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Ben Mendelsohn
Australian Actor
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
American Politician
The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.
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Plutarch
Greek Philosopher
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
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Josiah Royce
American Philosopher
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
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Thomas Browne
British Scientist
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
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James Broughton
American Director
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
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Henry Alford
English Clergyman
I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
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George Herbert
British Poet
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese Soldier
The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
Quote examples
Amyra Dastur
Indian Actress
Bascially, I want to do movies wherein even the girl's character actually has a part. If you want me to do glamorous roles, that's fine. But you have to make sure the character is good.
Quote examples
Ben Mendelsohn
Australian Actor
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
American Politician
The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.
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Plutarch
Greek Philosopher
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
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Josiah Royce
American Philosopher
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
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Thomas Browne
British Scientist
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
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James Broughton
American Director
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
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Henry Alford
English Clergyman
I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
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George Herbert
British Poet
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
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