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I've seen this expression multiple times either attached to a longer sentence
or by itself.

For example:

>   1. A: ねー、もっときれいに書いてください。これなんて書いてあるんですか B:あー、 **なんでしょう** 。。。. 私も読めません.
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>   2. 恵那：(After seeing よつば fiddling with the swingset) なにして **んだろう** 。。。
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My questions are:

What does this term mean? Does it have multiple meanings? When is it commonly
used? How does it differ from similar expressions?
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What do ~んでしょう & なんでしょう mean?
The ん in your two examples are different, the first being part 何 while the
second is a contraction of の, but the general meaning of だろう・でしょう is the same
in both. If だろう or でしょう is paired with a question word or followed immediately
by か, it's basically a way of asking a somewhat self-directed question, like
'I wonder ...' (Note that they can also mean that without either of those
things sometimes.)

In your first example A says, 'Hey, you should write a little more neatly.
What does this say?' B replies, 'I wonder ... I can't read it either.' (Okay,
I meant to write this earlier, but maybe B wasn't the one she was directly
talking to? Seems a little weird that B wouldn't know what B themselves wrote,
but then again my own handwriting is messy enough that I have trouble reading
it sometimes. Dyspraxia is annoying)

In your second Ena says 'I wonder what she's doing ...' (Sequences like るんだ,
るな sometimes contract to んだ, んな)

I am very tired writing this, so please forgive any messiness or typos.
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