damned
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Widow’s Bay’s founders damned themselves and all their descendants by burying their iniquity instead of living with it long enough to dispel it and learn from that mistake.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Nature be damned, tech entrepreneurs like Bryan Johnson are all in on biohacking.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
But when rallying the fanbase for causes, “You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t,” Mike said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Banks may be damned by skittish investors if they do engage with private credit, and damned if they don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
He was one of those who are damned to love once.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
We move on to another patchwork team doing its damndest to defy the odds.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
Marvel has an extensive catalogue of characters to anoint as the next generation of Avengers; it’s also doing its damndest to make the X-Men cool again.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2019
Neither, it turns out, are Green Day, who do their damndest to avoid anyone seeing their "secret" NME/Radio 1 stage set on Saturday morning.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2012
One had to do with the other: The simpler the system was, the less the players had to worry about anything but trying their damndest to execute it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
We did our damndest, which angels can't do no more.
From The Valley of the Giants by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
But really, Reijn is doing her damnedest to get a moral rise out of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
“We’re doing our damnedest to get this right,” said Steven Siegel, a board member of the Colorado Healing Fund.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
"It can't achieve strategic surprise but it will try its damnedest to achieve operational and tactical surprise. That will involve concealment, camouflage, deception, misinformation which they used quite successfully last autumn."
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023
And here in the United States, on St. Patrick’s Day, I’ll be doing my damnedest not to enter one.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
“That’s not from you. I slipped and fell on a rock right after you left. It was the damnedest thing!”
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
