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“People don’t give a damn about the event,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
This isn’t just teenage dramatics: Elephant seals don’t hunt or eat as they molt, so he’s hungry and tired and will sleep wherever he damn pleases.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
"I mean, I'm already black and gay, like, damn, God," he joked.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
“The sentiment that I think was registering for people back then was ‘I remember what my old prices were, and damn it—I want them back.’”
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
I kept thinking about it so hard that at one point I actually stopped cold and went down on one knee in the middle of the damn street.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
When Mr. Marx acclaims “Old Town Road” as an “incredible homegrown feat,” he praises what he damns elsewhere as the second sickness of our age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Sand is essential for constructing buildings, roads, hydroelectric damns and solar panels.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
Over five sections, this tear-splattered score mourns and damns, and declares where in the past Adams might have simply observed.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
It is also an intensely humane work by a skillful writer of nonfiction narrative who knows how to make you forgive even as he damns.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2019
The building of storage reservoirs requires available areas to flood, favorable sites for dams, and scientific knowledge to supervise the construction of such damns and reservoirs.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
This route brings people together, including me and my car enthusiast friends, who regularly go on these driving excursions — gas prices be damned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Mark Twain said there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. This website contains all three,” Lynn Tramonte, Ohio Immigrant Alliance’s executive director, said in a statement.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Nature be damned, tech entrepreneurs like Bryan Johnson are all in on biohacking.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
“Her 'Director of Operations’ is some guy I’ve never seen and she’s telling him to bury our damned product out behind the warehouse?
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
This is not as damning a result as it otherwise might seem.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
One damning part of the plan involved a potential future role for Infantino in the investment fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
And, most damning of all, he disappointed Lionel Messi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
When Jack pairs cut-outs of Manny’s stills with his audio, he forms a crude piece of damning evidence.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Until for the first time since she died, Mom materializes and is standing before me, her hair a blaze of black fire, her eyes damning me.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
