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[dam] / dæm /


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She has to look gorgeous, while also appearing not to give a damn that she does.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Jeez, if I'd known, I'd have given a damn sight better answer than I did at the time!

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“We have lost sight of the narrative of just how damn important higher education is to our country,” he said at an event at CMU celebrating the gift.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The show, which is having its world premiere at the Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, is just so damn heartwarming that I can’t help but resort to the language of blurbs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

And we both fell in damn love, man, almost from the second we met.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

When Mr. Marx acclaims “Old Town Road” as an “incredible homegrown feat,” he praises what he damns elsewhere as the second sickness of our age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

"They ran an atrocious service and what damns them most is the last minute cancellations," he said.

From BBC ● May 11, 2023

With her final breath, she damns him to a life without Love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

But Felt doesn’t quite tap into the complicated psychology of the character, so deft at counterfeiting innocence even as she damns her victims.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2019

But all felt about it passionately; no one damned it with faint praise and no one praised it with faint damns.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer

Not for the first time, it finds itself in no-win situation, damned no matter which course of action it takes in the absence of some negotiated plan.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The author of the novel “Cloud Six” on conversations with angels, sojourns in limbo and one memorable journey to the world of the damned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

“Sometimes you gotta get off social media and demand answers. Cuz I’ll be damned if my ‘husband’ is a clown and we’re not at the circus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

They were stronger, but I kicked and bucked and tried to run, dignity be damned.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Sunderland head coach Regis le Bris was not quite as damning but still disappointed.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The occasion for all this abuse is “Musk,” Gibney’s damning, nearly four-hour documentary about the trillionaire, which hits theaters in Los Angeles and New York Friday after causing a stir on the festival circuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

She stoops to blackmail to force Nana to steal Ericka’s file from the headmistress’s office in the hope of unearthing some damning or disqualifying revelation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Trade bible Variety called it a "lacerating portrait," while Deadline said the "damning" film had "thrashed" Musk as "petty, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cruel."

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Teller dismissed the offer out of hand, damning it as exactly the sort of half measure he had been fighting for years.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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