damned
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Walker blamed the erosion of our phone manners partly on social media, which creates the sense that we must be “on” at all times, surroundings be damned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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
This route brings people together, including me and my car enthusiast friends, who regularly go on these driving excursions — gas prices be damned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
It was the roar of the damned that filled Broadway, where motor cars and buses and the hurrying people disputed every inch with death.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
He rang his boss, the head of the political section: "I said, you know, Jim, this is the damndest thing."
From BBC ● May 6, 2019
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
We did our damndest, which angels can't do no more.
From The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
No doubt the TikTok amateur detectives would’ve momentarily shifted from true crime to the Chaplin twins, trying their damnedest to debunk what only the sisters could truly understand.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
If a young band can meet a grim moment like this, the Neighborhood Kids did their damnedest on Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
"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
Much of the evening was a tug of war between the bands doing their damnedest to keep the crowd engaged and fans pulling back to an understandably rigid posture.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021
“Colonel, I watched that from above. Colonel, that was the damnedest thing I ever saw.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
