damned
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Not for the first time, it finds itself in no-win situation, damned no matter which course of action it takes in the absence of some negotiated plan.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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
Now interest in vintage Jeeps, Land Rover Defenders and Ford Broncos is surging for women who will pay top dollar for old cars, never-ending upkeep be damned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
They were stronger, but I kicked and bucked and tried to run, dignity be damned.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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
Stomping around in woolly tights and Fair Isle cardies, Wilson does her damndest to pull off frumpiness, but who’s she kidding?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2018
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
You bump into the damndest things around here," he said, "But let's get down to the important business.
From Twelve Times Zero by Howard Browne
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
But really, Reijn is doing her damnedest to get a moral rise out of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
“We’re doing our damnedest to get this right,” said Steven Siegel, a board member of the Colorado Healing Fund.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
"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
“That’s not from you. I slipped and fell on a rock right after you left. It was the damnedest thing!”
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
