damned
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"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Widow’s Bay’s founders damned themselves and all their descendants by burying their iniquity instead of living with it long enough to dispel it and learn from that mistake.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Instead, the young band just returned from dazzling audiences at Las Vegas’ Sick New World Festival and is focused on the release of its debut album — homework be damned.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
“That’s exactly what Ash said before he left last night. I’ll be damned if you’re going to disappear on me too.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
They lost, 16-12,They lost, 16-12, but Zebo was outstanding, taking his catches, making his tackles, and doing his damndest to break the gainline.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2013
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
But really, Reijn is doing her damnedest to get a moral rise out of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
"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
“I just think that it’s a really major part of the American contribution to the history of comedy. I like to try my damnedest to keep it alive,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
And here in the United States, on St. Patrick’s Day, I’ll be doing my damnedest not to enter one.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 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
