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- interjection slang
What do you know ?
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Examples
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Dilan Esper says: if a “current ethnic group” that has been yearning for Jerusalem in its rituals for a couple thousand years turns out, whaddayaknow, to be actually related by blood rather than by mere opportunism
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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CNNMoney says that consumers are avoiding gas guzzling SUVs and buying ... nothing! whaddayaknow.
Car Sales Plummet: Automakers Just Don't Make The Cars You Want - The Consumerist 2008
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Instead of berating Jewish peace organizations for not working together more, the worthy response is - whaddayaknow, working together!
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Prior to the Plame/CIA leak scandal (a.k.a. the Rove scandal), Miller had already tainted the paper's reputation in a more significant manner than had Blair with her war-greasing stories on WMDs in Iraq that -- whaddayaknow -- didn't exist.
David Corn: Is Judy Miller Worse for the Times than Jayson Blair? 2008
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CNNMoney says that consumers are avoiding gas guzzling SUVs and buying... nothing! whaddayaknow.
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Johan at Ecmanaut exposes the greasemonkey category script to some combination of solar radiation & spider venom, & whaddayaknow... it comes back with super powers.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Johan at Ecmanaut exposes the greasemonkey category script to some combination of solar radiation & spider venom, & whaddayaknow... it comes back with super powers.
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I grew up in a Polish immigrant household, surrounded by kielbasa, but once I went off to college I found myself eating less and less meat, and then - whaddayaknow?
RogerEbert Headlines 2010
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And whaddayaknow, Hot Rod and Skywatch have just turned up alongside a whole freakin 'army of Headmasters.
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Hey, lola, except for references to a certain whaddayaknow, you just described Weeds.
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