damned

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This is the question hanging over Shulman, the co-founder and CEO of AI music-generator Suno, who thinks anyone with a laptop should be able to create music—piano or guitar lessons be damned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Many of our children’s favorite apps and social-media sites were built from the ground up to keep young users hooked and helpless to look away, consequences to their health and well-being be damned.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

“In some ways, practices might be facing a Hobson’s choice, where they are damned if they do and they are damned if they don’t.”

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2026

The VAR is damned if they do use slow motion replays, and damned if they do not.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

“Either we’ve all been damned and the citadel is our hell,” said Suheyla, shaking, “or there’s another explanation.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor