damned

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This is the question hanging over Shulman, the co-founder and CEO of AI music-generator Suno, who thinks anyone with a laptop should be able to create music—piano or guitar lessons be damned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

There was the tire, leaning against the wall, but be damned if I was going to put it on.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner