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“Wait, what’d you say?,” the Grammy-nominated musician asks, according to the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
When people ask you where you from, what'd you say?
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
“Casio, how did we talk about today’s protest, what’d we say?”
From New York Times ● May 14, 2022
“Forty years I’ve been chasing Sidney, they finally give it to me, what’d they do? They give it to him the same night,” said Washington from the stage.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
“Us scientists need to stick together, like the hydrogen bonds of water, if we’re going to put an end to, um, what’d you call it? The silent cat killer.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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