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“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
“We damn sure better be investing in Texas now than in 2032,” Wendy Davis told me.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
The paintballing video, Breinholt told us, is another "very telling bit of evidence" with the presence of Anwar al-Awlaki being "pretty damn significant".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“It certainly wasn’t flawless,” Riley said, “but it was pretty damn good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
It was so damn bright outside I could hardly see.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
When Mr. Marx acclaims “Old Town Road” as an “incredible homegrown feat,” he praises what he damns elsewhere as the second sickness of our age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Sand is essential for constructing buildings, roads, hydroelectric damns and solar panels.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
“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
With her final breath, she damns him to a life without Love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
The Doctor also professes to be with the Teetotalers; but they don’t all go to Bolt Court, and the Doctor damns them with faint praise.
From The London Pulpit by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
The author of the novel “Cloud Six” on conversations with angels, sojourns in limbo and one memorable journey to the world of the damned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"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
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
Bill said he would be damned if he would leave his dinner.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Manchester City confirmed Friday they had launched an appeal against a damning judgement that found the club guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 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
This is another damning section, which brings into question the integrity of undisclosed people associated with City.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
It’s hard to read the late secretary’s words as anything but damning with faint praise.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Most damning of all, Captain Flume had moved back into his trailer.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
