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Black candidates made historic inroads in statewide elections for offices like the Senate, which are not affected by redrawing individual district maps; and in the House, Black candidates won many contested seats, gerrymandering be damned.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
He annulled her royal title; declared their only child, Elizabeth, illegitimate; and damned her memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
He’d grab my hand and start dragging me immediately to the nearest boutique, credit card debt be damned.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
We move on to another patchwork team doing its damndest to defy the odds.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
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
Neither, it turns out, are Green Day, who do their damndest to avoid anyone seeing their "secret" NME/Radio 1 stage set on Saturday morning.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2012
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
Here's you hoping and yearning to marry and that's the damndest folly of all.
From Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol
No doubt the TikTok amateur detectives would’ve momentarily shifted from true crime to the Chaplin twins, trying their damnedest to debunk what only the sisters could truly understand.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
If a young band can meet a grim moment like this, the Neighborhood Kids did their damnedest on Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
"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
“We will do our damnedest but it’s hard to fight them all.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Sometimes I walk the wall with Ida, who tries her damnedest to draw me into conversation, to no avail.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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