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You have fewer times to let Steve and Soichi go through it and explore all the what-ifs, and prepare both their procedures and their heads for what might we be looking at -- looking for as a, you know, indicator of something bad.

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  • A thousand what ifs, and he was no closer to understanding the whole thing than he had been when it first happened. —  Message in a Bottle
  • Making sure there was no ifs, ands, and buts about it. —  With No One as Witness
  • You have fewer times to let Steve and Soichi go through it and explore all the what-ifs, and prepare both their procedures and their heads for what might we be looking at -- looking for as a, you know, indicator of something bad. —  CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2005
  • So I've not allowed myself to start thinking about the what-ifs, and what if I don't win and all of the other things. —  CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2008
  • "Nothing wrong with what-ifs, either, " she says. —  Predator
 

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