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“We have lost sight of the narrative of just how damn important higher education is to our country,” he said at an event at CMU celebrating the gift.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The first media member agrees, saying “He’s a good-looking dude. His skin is, like, so smooth, I was like, damn, no tattoos?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
“We damn sure better be investing in Texas now than in 2032,” Wendy Davis told me.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
People in this country will buy damn near anything — especially if there’s an electronic coupon involved.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
“No it isn’t. It’s just a piece of paper, and nobody here gives a damn about that. You’re on a show now. The rules are different.”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
Sand is essential for constructing buildings, roads, hydroelectric damns and solar panels.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
Stone appears to give neither of these damns, opting for an approach that forgoes fidelity in favor of an aggressive examination of the internal and external forces laying siege to Lucia’s sanity.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2022
But Felt doesn’t quite tap into the complicated psychology of the character, so deft at counterfeiting innocence even as she damns her victims.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2019
We love a man who damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Hal likens Soldiers & Sailors to Dante’s Inferno, a place where souls are damned to eternally relive their most terrible experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Sometimes you gotta get off social media and demand answers. Cuz I’ll be damned if my ‘husband’ is a clown and we’re not at the circus.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“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
Suit be damned, I sit down on the steps.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
She stoops to blackmail to force Nana to steal Ericka’s file from the headmistress’s office in the hope of unearthing some damning or disqualifying revelation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
This is another damning section, which brings into question the integrity of undisclosed people associated with City.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
The most damning evidence, however, came from Dessie, who was a big Daughter Elk and knew things.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
