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“Everyone is, in a sense, facing the same damn problem,” said Brad Setser, trade expert at the Council on Foreign Relations and former senior adviser to the U.S. trade representative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Bamford, on the other hand, has made a career out of being so deeply in touch with her mind and self that it would frighten the average neurotypical viewer if it weren’t so damn funny.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The first media member agrees, saying, “He’s a good-looking dude. His skin is, like, so smooth, I was like, damn, no tattoos?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 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

Samantha pulls out her phone, recording herself as she sings Lady Gaga’s parts beside Dylan, and damn, I love Dylan because he doesn’t even need to look at the monitor to sing Beyoncé’s parts.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

He damns terrorists with faint praise, as when he condemned the attack on a Jewish school in West Bloomfield, Mich., before excusing the perpetrator with the words “hurt people do hurt people.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

“The Towering Inferno,” an easy target, is skewered; more boldly, Hawke leads into “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” with a Martin Ritt quotation that damns the blockbuster with faint praise.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 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

For that foul guilt which first took place In his dark heart, now damns his face; And makes those eyes, where life should dwell, Look like the pits of Death and Hell.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers

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

“I felt damned glad I had not lost my life fighting for my country,” he remembered in a 1942 column published in the Pittsburgh Courier.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Especially damning was the evidence given by Dan McCartney, who managed Chowdhury at Defra.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

It would be easy to dismiss Nelson as selfish, or, at the worst and most damning, a bad parent.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

“That has yielded a damning record,” Annie Lai, director of the Immigrant and Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic at the UC Irvine School of Law, argued during the September hearing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

So it’s not exactly damning of something violent bubbling right below the surface.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

“But that’s not the most damning evidence,” said Scythe Mandela.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman