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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
“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
He is not where he wants to be, “but pretty pretty damn good, if you ask me, to not play football in two years to be moving how I’m moving.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Truthfully, this probably the best thing that could’ve happened to you. Publicity is publicity, I don’t give a damn how bad it is. It made you number one on Dat Cloud, didn’t it?”
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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
That stink, to an unprejudiced nose, damns Calcutta as a City of Kings.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
They differed over whether that protection damned the Constitution or vindicated it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Damned if you do, damned if you don't," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
They soon understand that to be heartbroken is to be damned to know the exquisite pain of being alive.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 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
And people repeated, “It’s those damned big guns they’re shooting off in France-—spoiling the weather in the whole world.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The damning judgement landed less than five days after Manchester United's extended filing to the New York Stock Exchange which detailed their end of year accounts to 30 June 2026.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Manchester City confirmed Friday they had launched an appeal against a damning judgement that found the club guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
It’s hard to read the late secretary’s words as anything but damning with faint praise.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Clk/sd, that’s possibly the most useful and damning piece of information I’ve given you.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
