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None of it mattered because Kliff Kingsbury called damn near a perfect game and Jayden Daniels executed damn near perfectly under center.
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David Aldridge, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Compared with the recent boom of espionage series subverting the traditionally self-serious genre — Slow Horses’s lovable losers, Black Doves’s anarchic sense of humor, The Day of the Jackal’s soap-opera goofiness — this preoccupation seems damn near old-fashioned.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
Got damn near emotional reading it as a lifelong Chargers fan.
—Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
Watching Jude Law play this difficult-man antihero, however, is what makes The Order go from good to damn near great.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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David Aldridge, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Compared with the recent boom of espionage series subverting the traditionally self-serious genre — Slow Horses’s lovable losers, Black Doves’s anarchic sense of humor, The Day of the Jackal’s soap-opera goofiness — this preoccupation seems damn near old-fashioned.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
Got damn near emotional reading it as a lifelong Chargers fan.
—Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
Watching Jude Law play this difficult-man antihero, however, is what makes The Order go from good to damn near great.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Damn near.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/damn%20near. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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