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The paintballing video, Breinholt told us, is another "very telling bit of evidence" with the presence of Anwar al-Awlaki being "pretty damn significant".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“It certainly wasn’t flawless,” Riley said, “but it was pretty damn good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
"I realised everything it had cost me -- all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD," said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Too pure for endless battles over a damn chair.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
As we ate I thought how even though we still didn’t get that damn tree out, for the first time since me and Rondell had been working on it we got it to budge.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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
"They ran an atrocious service and what damns them most is the last minute cancellations," he said.
From BBC ● May 11, 2023
“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
It is also an intensely humane work by a skillful writer of nonfiction narrative who knows how to make you forgive even as he damns.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2019
The country squire damns a court life, and would not go cringing and creeping to a drawing-room for the best place the king has at his disposal.
From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop
"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
Ellison’s father recently took Oracle out of Redwood City, first to Austin, Texas, then to Nashville, workers be damned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Having caught the attention of the concert crowd, Trey strode in a near straight line toward me, picnic blankets be damned, stumbling over the edge of the last one, shooting it a dirty look.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Trade bible Variety called it a "lacerating portrait," while Deadline said the "damning" film had "thrashed" Musk as "petty, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cruel."
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
It’s hard to read the late secretary’s words as anything but damning with faint praise.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
This is not as damning a result as it otherwise might seem.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
No damning life event preceded my change in style, though I’d recently stopped dating and found some strange joy in perceiving bangs as another barrier-to-entry to anyone who tried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
In his defense, Chauncey Burr released Ruth Culver’s damning statement to the press.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
