damned
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Walker blamed the erosion of our phone manners partly on social media, which creates the sense that we must be “on” at all times, surroundings be damned.
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
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Instead, he hollered to Robbie, “Do something worthwhile with those damned hands of yours. Get over here and play me a game of pool.”
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
They lost, 16-12,They lost, 16-12, but Zebo was outstanding, taking his catches, making his tackles, and doing his damndest to break the gainline.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2013
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 know that fellow is the damndest bore I was ever up against!
From John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow
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
Then again, as you noted, “The Eras Tour” is doing its damnedest to give movie theaters a badly needed shot of adrenaline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
“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
“No. It’s, like, the damnedest thing. The cameraman and others who were there say he just vanished.”
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
