as in why
how surprising, doubtful, or unbelievable
what! I can't believe we won!
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Interjection
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For oh so long, Edward Cabrera has flashed tantalizing talent with the Miami Marlins.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2025 -
And people have said, oh, this is a constitutional crisis.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2025
Interjection
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And hey, the whole ordeal might actually help Hub reconnect with his family, so there’s a silver lining to all this blood and guts.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
4 Mar. 2025
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But hey, the whole point of this helmet is that everything comes together, in one package.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Mar. 2025
Interjection
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Anyway, diffusion LLMs seem to handle this with ease (well, the research is still tentative, so don’t bank on this just yet).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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As their name suggests, supermassive black holes are, well, very massive—most are more than one million times the mass of our sun.—
Brian Handwerk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Mar. 2025
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“What.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/what. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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