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With the program and song texts only available to download on the cellphone, the audience was left in the dark without texts and, with amplification obscuring diction, not knowing what’s what.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026
You are one of the few people who ever tells Carrie what's what, and I've waited 25 years for that.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
“You find out what’s what and who’s who. That’s usually how you get remembered. … Happy to be at seven. We’d rather be at nine, but we’re not. We’re not looking back.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
They left them with nowhere to go, bar back to Nice with a lesson learned about what's what at the truly elite level of this game.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2023
“Alright,” Redd said, “we can figure this out on the way, but let’s get moving. I want the Penitentiary staked out so we can see what’s what from there.”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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