damned
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They differed over whether that protection damned the Constitution or vindicated it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Sometimes you gotta get off social media and demand answers. Cuz I’ll be damned if my ‘husband’ is a clown and we’re not at the circus.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
He would’ve run straight through, trees be damned, if he hadn’t heard the distinctive sound of glass on metal.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
He rang his boss, the head of the political section: "I said, you know, Jim, this is the damndest thing."
From BBC ● May 6, 2019
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
Stomping around in woolly tights and Fair Isle cardies, Wilson does her damndest to pull off frumpiness, but who’s she kidding?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2018
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
You know that fellow is the damndest bore I was ever up against!
From John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow
No doubt the TikTok amateur detectives would’ve momentarily shifted from true crime to the Chaplin twins, trying their damnedest to debunk what only the sisters could truly understand.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Then again, as you noted, “The Eras Tour” is doing its damnedest to give movie theaters a badly needed shot of adrenaline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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
“We will do our damnedest but it’s hard to fight them all.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
“All right,” I said, trying my damnedest to sound like them.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
