what'd
AmericanUsage
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Example Sentences
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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
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
“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
But don’t put them in writing. it’d, that’d, there’D, this’d, what’d.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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