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"Taylor's so damn nice to my family and has always been," he told Entertainment Tonight, external last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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
“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
He added: “Homeownership—a cornerstone of the American dream—is too far out of reach, and rent is too damn high.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
“Besides, I know exactly where to find him. Whenever the crew comes across anything that looks old or strange or kabbalistic—books, amulets, papers—he takes them off our hands. Pays a damn good price, too.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
"They ran an atrocious service and what damns them most is the last minute cancellations," he said.
From BBC ● May 11, 2023
With her final breath, she damns him to a life without Love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
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
Dryden can only save his character by a jest, and Rousseau damns it with an epigram.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene
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
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
When he returned to the U.S. after eight years abroad, he remarked, “Europeans are 20 years behind the times, but working damned hard three days a week to catch up.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Hades, one of my least favorite gods, smoothed his black robes, which were covered with the terrified faces of the damned.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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
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
I next asked if he’d open it for me, which is when I heard some rustling and then a long, damning pause on the other end of the line.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
