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Could be days before we know what’s what.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022

And it’s really hard as an internet consumer to know what’s what misinformation, disinformation, or something real.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2020

And then how you experience it is you experience it, through symbolism and metaphor, because a lot of the world when you're a kid you don't really know what's what.

From Salon • May 26, 2020

"Future researchers writing the history of Cambodia will not know what's what."

From Fox News • Nov. 17, 2018

The Preacher said, “If it was me, I’d circle around and come from the south. You all go look north. I’m not expecting any trouble. These are my woods, I know what’s what out here.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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