damn
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"I realised everything it had cost me -- all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD," said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Oh damn, I knew there was something I was supposed to tell you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Or, when you've lost out on goal difference so many times before, does it actually matter a damn?
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Finally understanding what they’re up against still doesn’t give him any answers about what made this place so damn haunted.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
‘Christamighty! I wouldn’t park myself behind that cash box if you was to give me the whole damn place, lock, stock, and barrel.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Sand is essential for constructing buildings, roads, hydroelectric damns and solar panels.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
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
With her final breath, she damns him to a life without Love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
Yet, with some few exceptions, commerce seems writ large upon them all and their very perfection of finish damns them in the eyes of an artist.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
They soon understand that to be heartbroken is to be damned to know the exquisite pain of being alive.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ellison’s father recently took Oracle out of Redwood City, first to Austin, Texas, then to Nashville, workers be damned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
In return, Beauty sent the Belles to be roses growing out of the dark and ravaged soil, destined to bring beauty back to the damned world, as the sun brings light.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
This is not as damning a result as it otherwise might seem.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
No damning life event preceded my change in style, though I’d recently stopped dating and found some strange joy in perceiving bangs as another barrier-to-entry to anyone who tried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
With sentiment so strongly against the plans, a damning statement from Fifa's respected chief operating officer Kevin Lamour would have been a crushing blow.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
And, most damning of all, he disappointed Lionel Messi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Clk/sd, that’s possibly the most useful and damning piece of information I’ve given you.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
