How to Use so what in a Sentence

so what

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  • And so what is the goal right now?
    Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
  • And so what does that mean for jobs?
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Right then, so what is this bike all about?
    New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This is the seventh one, so what is that now?
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
  • If the Heat finish in sixth place, so what?
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Felony record this young doesn't bode well for their future, so what now?
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Yes, the bathrooms had to be redone, but so what?
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Rabbits are light, so what works for them may not hold up in humans.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, Mike White just went and got all buff, so what is that about?
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In the words of Oprah Winfrey, so what is the truth?
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Vikings have Kyler Murray, so what’s next?
    Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And so what that moment taught me, because the simplest things were so hard.
    NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025
  • And so what emerges is this difference between them?
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And so what really struck me about it is just how many men are struggling with this.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Well, so what if there’s something irrational in it?
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • And certainly he wasn’t allowed to drive anymore, so what was with the tires?
    Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
  • There’s no real buzz about Kentucky and Mark Stoops, but so what?
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The Giants were built to win, but failed to meet expectations, so what went wrong?
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The idea is most people wouldn’t understand it anyway, so what’s the point of bringing it up?
    Kennedy French, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The red home shirt featured a pharaoh as its primary background design, so what does the away shirt have?
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This was impossible, but this was happening—so what did that mean?
    Ben Mezrich, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026
  • And so what is your obligation to participate in health research on your own body?
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Everybody's in spooky season mode, so what better way to get in the mood than by watching some horror flicks.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, so what mattered was its ability to react.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
  • March falls within the start of strawberry season, so what better way to honor the juicy fruit than to wear them on your nails.
    Christina Perrier, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • One is detection and attribution of climate change—so what does climate change look like?
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The brand calls this a pre-treatment refining exfoliant, so what exactly does that mean?
    Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 22 Feb. 2026
  • And so what the Biden Administration was telling us was something had changed.
    Scott Pelley, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Eli Lilly’s deal man Jake van Naarden is very, very busy, so what does that mean for biotech and pharma?
    Elaine Chen, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This is a once-in-a-generation transit, so what’s to come is undeniable.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026

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