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“I said: ‘Oh, my gosh, what’d we get ourselves into?
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
He later told Valentine, "That should've made you feel uncomfortable. Like, whoa, bro, what'd you just say?"
From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023
“And of course as a mother, everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what’d we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement. And I said, ‘This doesn’t make any sense,’” she told Williams.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022
No matter her productivity, her colleagues seemed to care primarily about the chitchat — what’d you do last weekend, where’d you get that purse?
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022
Maybe I don’t. 7TH JUROR: So what’d you vote “not guilty” for? 8TH JUROR: There were eleven votes for “guilty.”
From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
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