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Free sign upThe phrase "whose backgrounds" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a relative pronoun to refer to people or things having an attributed or specified background, either literal or figurative. For example, "We welcomed new members to the club, whose backgrounds varied greatly."
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Mrs. Mehta posts information only on clients whose backgrounds she has checked.
Schulman can claim a long history of writing characters whose backgrounds are not from her own experience.
He is among a group of people whose backgrounds in biochemistry have led the F.B.I. to examine their activities.
According to a leading fertility specialist in New York, some couples come to her specifically looking for egg donors whose backgrounds differ from their own.
He has 11 volunteers (whose backgrounds were checked, he said, by the police) who zip to 18 subway locations when called every night of the week.
So far there has not been vocal criticism of the nominees, whose backgrounds were reviewed for a month and a half before the appointments were formally announced.
1. SHE DOESN'T EVEN GO HERE This is your classic star-crossed lovers, whose backgrounds (often beyond their control) render them victims of circumstance.
Residents, whose backgrounds include software programming, marketing, architecture and music, share bedrooms in the 200 sq foot flat for a minimum of three months.
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