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A phrase following a statement that adds emphasis or suggests an option. For example, in Is this a good movie or what? the phrase asks for confirmation or agreement. However, it also may ask for an alternative, as in Is this book a biography or what? In the 1700s it generally asked for a choice among a series of options, and it still has this function, as in In what does John excel? in imagination? in reasoning powers? in mathematics? or what?Example Sentences
As far as writing new songs, I’m not sure whether it’s going to be in the shape of an album or what it is, because we want to be able to release music quickly.
The platoon is so focused on exiting this house that no one mentions the Iraqi family who will be left behind in the rubble, or what happened to the local interpreters who had concerns about the plan.
Despite these revelations, Southern California Edison — and the state commission tasked with regulating utilities — have refused to disclose what changes Edison made to how it grounds idle transmission towers, or what prompted the company to make the change days after its crews were allowed to inspect the hillside where the blaze erupted.
The company also declined to answer questions as to what prompted the change, or what the change would entail when it came to idle towers such as the one now being scrutinized in the Eaton fire investigation.
A big part of high-functioning depression is being defined by your achievements or what you do for others.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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