damn

Because until you’re successful, frankly, nobody gives a damn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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

The number of licensed toys I had as a kid for characters I really didn’t give a damn about is embarrassingly exorbitant.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 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

Seeing my streams go up and my classmates geek out has me thinking that, damn, all this stuff I’ve dreamed of could actually happen.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

As so often in this book, Mr. Smith, in an attempt to put the best face possible on the U.S.S.R., seems to be praising with faint damns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

“The Towering Inferno,” an easy target, is skewered; more boldly, Hawke leads into “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” with a Martin Ritt quotation that damns the blockbuster with faint praise.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022

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

For a man and woman to travel together, even perforce and for a short distance, automatically damns the woman.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 by Bates, Harry

Now interest in vintage Jeeps, Land Rover Defenders and Ford Broncos is surging for women who will pay top dollar for old cars, never-ending upkeep be damned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

Drake is a rococo master of self-pity, but damned if he doesn’t have a real reason for it this time.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

"Unicorn's horn be damned," said her youngest sister.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

The song’s Korean refrain and damning alternate title?

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

It came to some damning findings, including saying there was "substantial doubt about the legitimacy of the source of the currency that was stolen" and concluding that Ramaphosa "has a case to answer".

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

But nothing is more damning to the Moreno era than the handling of arguably the greatest player in baseball history.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

In his defense, Chauncey Burr released Ruth Culver’s damning statement to the press.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock