Usually means: Reasons or explanations for something.
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  1. whys: Merriam-Webster
  2. whys: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whys: Collins English Dictionary
  4. whys: Vocabulary.com
  5. Why's, Whys, Whys, why's, whys: Wordnik
  6. why's, whys: Wiktionary
  7. why's: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. why's: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. whys: Dictionary.com
  10. whys: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whys: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (why)

adverb:  (interrogative) For what cause, reason, or purpose.
adverb:  Introducing a complete question.
adverb:  With a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.
adverb:  Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).
adverb:  Introducing a noun or other phrase.
adverb:  (relative) For which cause, reason, or purpose.
adverb:  (fused relative) The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
noun:  Reason.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To ask (someone) the question "why?".
noun:  (UK, dialect, archaic) A young heifer.
noun:  Alternative form of wye; the name of the Latin-script letter Y/y. [The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.]
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