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
Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2024
By now, there’s little to no reason to not think of this squad as the WNBA’s best, name recognition be darned.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2024
The social communities will make that connection really darn fast.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
In addition, Best Buy has some pretty darned good management.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Shops will be open, luminarias will be lit, and as twilight envelops the town, everyone gathers in Upper Park (above the steps on Main Street) for the lighting of the Christmas tree and pretty much the whole darned park.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2024
By now, there’s little to no reason to not think of this squad as the WNBA’s best, name recognition be darned.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2024
The social communities will make that connection really darn fast.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
In addition, Best Buy has some pretty darned good management.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for darn
Noun
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Since the death of Tom Petty meant an end to his primary job in 2017, Tench has still been visible in the background as a member of the house band in practically any tribute show that’s worth a damn.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Continue reading … 'STEELE' THE SHOW – MSNBC host demands Democrats start giving a ‘damn’ about Trump, Musk in fiery rant.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
17 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Advanced tools built on AI can crawl the web, stitch content together and send it back to us.—
Deepa Nagraj,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Polidori family arrived at McGregor Square in downtown Denver on the day of the April 4 Colorado Rockies home opener decked in team gear and jackets with the logo of their company, Polidori Sausage, stitched on the front.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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As mentor to a nascent entrepreneur and future president, Strong gave us a cursed Roy Cohn who grew more shocked about his apprentice.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Image ‘The Monkey’ After a cursed toy monkey from his childhood reappears, a man (Theo James) tries to stop it in this horror comedy directed by Osgood Perkins.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The comments are a hoot Fire and Braids named The Republic's best tamale in metro Phoenix.—
Tiffany Acosta,
The Arizona Republic,
16 Dec. 2024
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Our driver, Stu, was a hoot and snuck in a couple of impromptu stops at Baldwin Street, the world’s steepest street, and the historic Dunedin Railway Station, an architectural landmark considered to be the most photographed building in New Zealand.—
Lois Alter Mark,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Doctors still will need to practice sawing into bone and suturing muscles.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
19 Dec. 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
Verb
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And when repairing cars gets more expensive, so does something else: auto insurance.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
18 Apr. 2025
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Nasser had been largely repaired, but reminders of the violence were everywhere.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
Verb
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So, a long while, the bulk of it though, like the sewing things up and finishing happened from probably spring of 2023 to 2024.—
Steve Baltin,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Initially, many of these factories functioned as little more than exploitative sweatshops in which desperate young women sewed clothes for as little as five cents an hour (roughly $1 in 2025 dollars).—
Made by History,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Skinner had a terrible time of it for much of the season.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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What is disconcerting is when campaign donors and friends & family have commuted sentences after they have been legally convicted of terrible financial crimes.—
Sanjeev Menon,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Darn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darn. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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