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Mr. Anderson quotes one NFL head coach saying he looked “more like a damn aluminum siding salesman than a professional quarterback.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“We have lost sight of the narrative of just how damn important higher education is to our country,” he said at an event at CMU celebrating the gift.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Olympics, the environment, the damn developers, self-driving cars, LAX.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“We damn sure better be investing in Texas now than in 2032,” Wendy Davis told me.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

At one point I stood up straight, balanced my tool against the damn tree and wiped the sweat out of my eyes.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

He damns terrorists with faint praise, as when he condemned the attack on a Jewish school in West Bloomfield, Mich., before excusing the perpetrator with the words “hurt people do hurt people.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Sq Ldr George "Johnny" Johnson, who lived in Bristol, was a bomb-aimer in the 617 Squadron, which destroyed key damns in the industrial heartland of Germany in World War Two.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

Stone appears to give neither of these damns, opting for an approach that forgoes fidelity in favor of an aggressive examination of the internal and external forces laying siege to Lucia’s sanity.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2022

But Felt doesn’t quite tap into the complicated psychology of the character, so deft at counterfeiting innocence even as she damns her victims.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2019

Ragged children, hungry-eyed, Huddled up out of the coldness On your doorsteps, side by side, Till your footman damns their boldness.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Not for the first time, it finds itself in no-win situation, damned no matter which course of action it takes in the absence of some negotiated plan.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

Soft power be damned, Mr. Simms defines a great power in terms of its geography, population, number of nuclear weapons, size of its economy, network of military bases and resilience in the face of pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

Donovan added: “In the two hours I checked on him, he circled that damned pool four times. It seems likely to me that he’ll keep that up forever. Do you realize the position we’re in?”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

The damning judgement landed less than five days after Manchester United's extended filing to the New York Stock Exchange which detailed their end of year accounts to 30 June 2026.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

She stoops to blackmail to force Nana to steal Ericka’s file from the headmistress’s office in the hope of unearthing some damning or disqualifying revelation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Trade bible Variety called it a "lacerating portrait," while Deadline said the "damning" film had "thrashed" Musk as "petty, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cruel."

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

It’s hard to read the late secretary’s words as anything but damning with faint praise.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

But I was there to push back against the old and damning narrative about being a black urban kid in America, the one that foretold failure and then hastened its arrival.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama