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whereases

Variant of whereas

conjunction

  1. it being the case that; in view of the fact that: used in the preamble to a formal document: whereas the following incidents have occurred
  2. while on the contrary; but on the other hand: she is careful, whereas he takes risks

noun pl. whereases

a statement beginning with “whereas”

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