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“It certainly wasn’t flawless,” Riley said, “but it was pretty damn good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
“When you have zero, trying to figure out how to get to one is damn near impossible. Once you have one, it’s easier to figure out how to get to two.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Or, when you've lost out on goal difference so many times before, does it actually matter a damn?
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Finally understanding what they’re up against still doesn’t give him any answers about what made this place so damn haunted.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
But in a place like Durham they won’t do a damn thing.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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
Sq Ldr George "Johnny" Johnson, who lived in Bristol, was a bomb-aimer in the 617 Squadron, which destroyed key damns in the industrial heartland of Germany in World War Two.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
Stone appears to give neither of these damns, opting for an approach that forgoes fidelity in favor of an aggressive examination of the internal and external forces laying siege to Lucia’s sanity.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2022
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
The world absorbs our sap, and damns us for our putrid remains.
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Mark Twain said there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. This website contains all three,” Lynn Tramonte, Ohio Immigrant Alliance’s executive director, said in a statement.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Drake is a rococo master of self-pity, but damned if he doesn’t have a real reason for it this time.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Volta looked at him then, the anguish in his eyes like that of a man already damned.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
This is not as damning a result as it otherwise might seem.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
One damning part of the plan involved a potential future role for Infantino in the investment fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Uefa, which governs European football, had already made its opposition clear by releasing two damning statements - and that strength of feeling has been reaffirmed.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
And, most damning of all, he disappointed Lionel Messi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
But I was there to push back against the old and damning narrative about being a black urban kid in America, the one that foretold failure and then hastened its arrival.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
