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

Many of Ms. Allen’s favorite writers have been damned with the label “minor” and exiled to the literary gulags, far away from the reading public.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The VAR is damned if they do use slow motion replays, and damned if they do not.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

“Put Evan on the dogs and make sure those damned shamblers don’t breach the secondary again! I have guests.”

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland