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What are synonyms for “what’s the deal?” here?

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Rebecca

"What's the deal" is used when you want to know about a problem or something strange that is happening. Here they are wondering what is going on with their brother. So some synonyms would be: Ex: What's going on? Ex: What's he doing? Ex: What's happening?

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