as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
nobody gave a darn about us when we were poor, but now that we are rich, we have friends we never knew about!
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also durn
as in cursed
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
I can't seem to tie this darn shoe
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Recent Examples of darn
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
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
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The result: Both treatments were pretty darned effective at staving off respiratory failure with no major complications.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for darn
Noun
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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
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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
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Consider a chic needlepoint pillow stitched with the songwriter’s lyrics or a coffee table book that catalogs her personal style.Claire Sullivan, WWD, 21 Nov. 2024
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Plus, the upper is stitched directly onto the plate, eliminating the need for a strobel board.Outside Editors, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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There are not only graphic battles of intense color and design but also psychedelic trips, including a trippy one inside the cursed realm of warrior god Hoenir’s head.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2024
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The cursed man is William Hickman, a merchant who lived there with his family beginning in 1596.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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And when Jay Rubin translated The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995), roughly 25,000 words were left on the cutting-room floor, while hefty structural changes were required to suture the remaining text together.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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If the body has suffered an injury, Sweeney will suture the wound together, then use mortuary wax and cosmetics to smooth it over.Mike Winters,Gene Kim, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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The sizable structure survived a car crash in 2010, but the city repaired it with new metal and paint work that was not suited to Minnesota winters, according to Pease.Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 14 Nov. 2024
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Apple iPhones have generally been hard to repair, but a recent iFixit teardown found the iPhone 16 to be the most repairable Apple smartphone.Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
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Here, the bear will take a turn as a tailor, sewing the finishing touches on ties to give to his family as holiday gifts while sipping on cups of Ralph’s Coffee and grabbing tools from a workstation and waving to visitors.Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
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During that time, rural Americans gifted their friends and family food and small handmade wooden or sewn presents.Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Meanwhile Kelly Oubre, who was terrible with the Warriors, has found success with Philadelphia.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Elsbeth and Kaya are suspicious of Roselyn, even after Valentina’s quick assessment — supported by the medical examiner — that Claude’s death was a terrible accident.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Darn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darn. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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