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Examples
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What we need in America is an awakening to the fact that we are not going to pull out of our present economic depression until we do our "damndest" to help the rest of the world pull out of it.
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While I had the keys to the Grotto I did my damndest to bring the bunnies around to colectivised bargaining and professional industrial representation.
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As one of the few human beings to have heard "City of Glass" performed live, I can tell you that the music's supporters and detractors are both correct: It's quite the damndest thing you ever heard.
The Jazz Scene: Birthdays and Mermaids Will Friedwald 2012
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Even worse, the unions are trying their damndest to kill any and all alternative schools because they have no control over them.
High school dropout rate takes a leap (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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However, he is governor and I will do my damndest to serve honorably the citizens of the Commonwealth.
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Bill, for instance, tries his damndest to have a public "safety net" meeting with various polygamous leaders and local politicians.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season Five, Ep. 2 Mark Blankenship 2011
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Eva Dead did her damndest, wearing the star in virtually every other jam in the first half.
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My husband and I tried our damndest to save that house — emptied all our savings, all our IRAs and still we lost it.
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But I knew I'd found what I was looking for - an agent who was in love with what I'd written, who got it on every level, who was going to do her damndest to find my book a happy home.
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She was always tremendously energetic, laughing, busy, busy laughing and trying her damndest to turn back the forces of darkness that pervade our visions of the future, here & elsewhere.
Errin Vuley memorial on Friday, November 20 at 11:00am (Blog for Democracy) 2009
oroboros commented on the word damndest
Common word with the most consecutive runs of consecutive alphabetic letters.
--Chris Cole, Wordplay (See comment under "Wordplay List".)
May 24, 2008