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This isn’t just teenage dramatics: Elephant seals don’t hunt or eat as they molt, so he’s hungry and tired and will sleep wherever he damn pleases.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Or, when you've lost out on goal difference so many times before, does it actually matter a damn?
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
"He should resign, damn it!" shouted the crowd of farmers, laborers, miners, transport workers and teachers who brought traffic to a halt on the streets of the Andean city.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
He added: “Homeownership—a cornerstone of the American dream—is too far out of reach, and rent is too damn high.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Didn’t matter who was around, if it was a girl, an older person, or his own damn brother.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
When Mr. Marx acclaims “Old Town Road” as an “incredible homegrown feat,” he praises what he damns elsewhere as the second sickness of our age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Over five sections, this tear-splattered score mourns and damns, and declares where in the past Adams might have simply observed.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Sq Ldr George "Johnny" Johnson, who lived in Bristol, was a bomb-aimer in the 617 Squadron, which destroyed key damns in the industrial heartland of Germany in World War Two.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
With her final breath, she damns him to a life without Love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
On one side is predestination that damns, on the other, justice that strikes—two terrible monsters.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules
“Mark Twain said there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. This website contains all three,” Lynn Tramonte, Ohio Immigrant Alliance’s executive director, said in a statement.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 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
Nature be damned, tech entrepreneurs like Bryan Johnson are all in on biohacking.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Dad said he was damned if Feigenbaum didn’t make a persuasive case that turbulence was not in fact random but followed a sequential spectrum of varying frequencies.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
One damning part of the plan involved a potential future role for Infantino in the investment fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Uefa, which governs European football, had already made its opposition clear by releasing two damning statements - and that strength of feeling has been reaffirmed.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
And, most damning of all, he disappointed Lionel Messi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The chief executive of the NHS trust at the centre of the largest maternity review in NHS history has said he is "shocked and upset" by its damning findings.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Until for the first time since she died, Mom materializes and is standing before me, her hair a blaze of black fire, her eyes damning me.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
