damned

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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

How can Scotland beat Ireland when Ireland have such a stubborn insistence on being so damned good in this game?

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Many of Ms. Allen’s favorite writers have been damned with the label “minor” and exiled to the literary gulags, far away from the reading public.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Bill said he would be damned if he would leave his dinner.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway