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Definition of damnnext

damn

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adverb

damn

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of damn
Adjective
The whole damn band should’ve gotten co-production and credit. Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026 About the team, about the city, about the whole damn thing. Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 20 June 2026
Adverb
Luckily for us, the best Lizzie McGuire could do was pretty damn good. Christian Holub, Entertainment Weekly, 21 June 2026 The perps are leading and so far those that have been listed before IPOs have done a pretty damn good job. Oliver Renick, CNBC, 15 June 2026
Noun
Volcanoes, like stars and tides and changing seasons, don’t give a damn. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026 What is emerging instead is a stewardship model that treats vital ecosystems, like coral reefs, as dynamic systems requiring maintenance, repair, and adaptation, much like roads, damns, and power grids. Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
Those facts are as damning to Stearns as Wednesday night’s collapse was to Mendoza. Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 26 June 2026 The other alterations may have contributed to the damning one. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for damn
Recent Examples of Synonyms for damn
Adjective
  • Enter coconut-milk nails, the internet’s new nickname for a wash of sheer white.
    Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 25 July 2026
  • Unlike traditional nail polish, nail concealer is a sheer, tinted treatment that helps disguise everything from breakage and discoloration to ridging.
    Alexis Berger, InStyle, 25 July 2026
Adverb
  • The Rolling Stones, down to two original members, have released their 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, and most of it is pretty damned good.
    David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026
  • But Cleveland State was, in fact, a damned good basketball team, as were most of the double-digit seed winners in NCAA Tournament history.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • His adoration, here as in all things natural, is infectious, although the birds themselves care not a whit for him, and isn’t that part of the wonder, the fun?
    Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • An unconventional structure or new approach bothers them not a whit.
    Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
Verb
  • And somehow, the process managed to produce a nation where children curse, dream, and throw tantrums in Hebrew without anyone feeling for a moment as if they were trapped in a historical reënactment.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • Trump is twice divorced, relishes cursing publicly and offers a never-ending onslaught of falsehoods.
    Will Weissert, Fortune, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • Baela isn’t sleeping or eating and is frantically seeking redemption after blaming herself for Jace’s death.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • This oversimplification blamed women’s lack of representation in leadership roles on individual women themselves.
    Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • Among hundreds of comparable defendants sentenced in recent years, the average sentence was approximately twenty-nine years.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • After violating probation, which was initially imposed by a judge, he was sentenced to prison in 1994 for about two years.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026
Adjective
  • The Springboks struggled to reflect their utter domination on the scoreboard and ought to have doubled their seven actual tries by seven different scorers.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
  • The problem is Will Ferrell as Lonnie Hawkins, an utter miscalculation of characterization and performance chiefly responsible for turning what could be middling comedy into an unbearable slog.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 July 2026
Adverb
  • That gets into the very annoying realization that some infinities are bigger than other infinities, which is mathematically true and conceptually uncomfortable.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 July 2026
  • Kim was very briefly a Big Ten starting quarterback — for five games at Michigan State in 2023.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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“Damn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damn. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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