damned

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Many of our children’s favorite apps and social-media sites were built from the ground up to keep young users hooked and helpless to look away, consequences to their health and well-being be damned.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

“In some ways, practices might be facing a Hobson’s choice, where they are damned if they do and they are damned if they don’t.”

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2026

“Allergies be damned, you want your family to be happy,” said Ossa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

It turns out Ashton Kutcher bathes on the regular after all, trend stories be damned.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

There was, in him, such a simmer of emotions, like chemicals thrown together in an alembic: fear like a sulfur fog, bitterness as sharp as salt, and damned fickle mercury for failure and desperation.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor