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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
But when rallying the fanbase for causes, “You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t,” Mike said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
“There’s nothing available. Shows are collapsing all over the damned country. There’s people starving. Starving! In the United States of America!”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
He rang his boss, the head of the political section: "I said, you know, Jim, this is the damndest thing."
From BBC ● May 6, 2019
Marvel has an extensive catalogue of characters to anoint as the next generation of Avengers; it’s also doing its damndest to make the X-Men cool again.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2019
They lost, 16-12,They lost, 16-12, but Zebo was outstanding, taking his catches, making his tackles, and doing his damndest to break the gainline.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2013
One had to do with the other: The simpler the system was, the less the players had to worry about anything but trying their damndest to execute it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
I am doing my damndest to keep things going here but it is awfully hard work, because the minute my head raises above the water some neighboring ship plugs it.
From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Louise Herrick Wall
He scored 29 points in the fourth quarter, a post-season record that still stands despite future Warriors like Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant trying their damnedest to knock it down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
“We’re doing our damnedest to get this right,” said Steven Siegel, a board member of the Colorado Healing Fund.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
"It can't achieve strategic surprise but it will try its damnedest to achieve operational and tactical surprise. That will involve concealment, camouflage, deception, misinformation which they used quite successfully last autumn."
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023
And here in the United States, on St. Patrick’s Day, I’ll be doing my damnedest not to enter one.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
“That’s not from you. I slipped and fell on a rock right after you left. It was the damnedest thing!”
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
