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darn

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verb

as in to stitch
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand

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darn

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adjective

variants also durn

Examples of darn in a Sentence

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Verb
Election be darned, no problem there — most voters have already made up their minds anyway. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024 Actors lived their best lives Saturday night at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards – giving each other trophies and looking darned good doing so. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024 Looking ahead to 2024’s release calendar does not inspire the same amount of confidence, but there will always be things to watch and stream — and some of those things might even be good, gosh darn it. James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024 Each one has been accompanied by proclamations that making machines truly intelligent is just too darned hard for humans to figure out. Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for darn 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for darn
Noun
  • Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 July 2024
Verb
  • Amaral began using horsehair as a material in the late 1960s, exploiting its natural stiffness which enabled her to scale up her work, for example with ‘Gran Muro’ (‘Great Wall’) which features strips of different lengths and thicknesses stitched onto a cotton backing.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Neither is it stitched by vignettes nor ensconced by the crafts of atmospheric immersion.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The cursed man is William Hickman, a merchant who lived there with his family beginning in 1596.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Footage of gamers struggling to build simple structures, or watching elaborate builds conjured before their eyes, are like watching someone trapped in a cursed Minecraft that exists in purgatory, with players never able to see their efforts come together into something coherent.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Oldman seems to be having a hoot in the role, too, which has landed him one of the show’s aforementioned Emmy nominations.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Margaret Qualley, as the former A-lister's younger self, also goes for broke in a film that's a disturbing, hilarious and jaw-dropping hoot.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • And perhaps most importantly, what detergent does the hospital use to keep his scrubs looking so white? In non-Kelce news, Episode 3 basically lays out a list of killer suspects, all of whom exhibit expert suturing abilities.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2024
  • But how well that scar heals is largely based on your doctor’s suturing technique.
    Kayla Greaves, Essence, 26 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Previously, Tri and its ilk have repaired these rifts, but something has gone awry, and Tri needs Zelda’s help to fix things.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • By the numbers: The bond package includes $56 million to resurface more than 25 miles of streets, $14 million for new traffic signals and cameras and $20 million to repair shoddy sidewalks, according to the AJC.
    Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Embellishments that are sewn on can easily tear in the washer and if they are glued, the intensity of the hot water can break down the adhesive.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The women also sew tote bags, skirts and other cloth items.
    John Corrigan, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In contrast, the United States in the 1970s suffered terrible inflationary pressures, financial dislocation, and substandard economic performance even though its outstanding government debt averaged only 33% of the county’s GDP.
    Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Any scenario that involves someone having to publicly stand by a terrible lie is aces in my book, so watching 45-year-old Sue squirm as others discussed the apparent assassination of one Miss Peppers was a true delight.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024

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“Darn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darn. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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