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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
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
Nature be damned, tech entrepreneurs like Bryan Johnson are all in on biohacking.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
“For the men in green: it was a proper moonlight evening for them. Did I break through one of your rings, that you spread that damned ice on the causeway?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
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
PES Goody and SilveryFox trying to heard chickens by doing their damndest to organise something resembling the World Cup for the PES bloggers.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2010
You bump into the damndest things around here," he said, "But let's get down to the important business.
From Twelve Times Zero by Browne, Howard
"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
To that moment, he had done his damnedest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
“We will do our damnedest but it’s hard to fight them all.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 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
“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
