as in where
at, in, or to what place
whither are you going, my lady?
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And then there are the Milwaukee Bucks, whose regular season wasn’t good enough and whose playoffs aren’t setting up much better, so whither Giannis Antetokounmpo or Damian Lillard?
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2025
For that matter…whither Stacey Dash? Is Mel, Cher’s angry lawyer father…dead on the reboot series?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2025
Maybe these things will die or just whither on the vine.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
And whither Elizabeth McCracken’s bizarro American epic Bowlaway?
—David Canfield, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2025
For that matter…whither Stacey Dash? Is Mel, Cher’s angry lawyer father…dead on the reboot series?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2025
Maybe these things will die or just whither on the vine.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
And whither Elizabeth McCracken’s bizarro American epic Bowlaway?
—David Canfield, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
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“Whither.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whither. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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