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• Winning, then and now, is the thing — style points be damned.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
• Jones has to saddle up again, aching joints be damned, to take them down.
  — A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• Swift vengeance is the order of the day, consequences be damned.
  — Eric Alterman, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
• But this isn’t just a case of Lush standing up for what’s right, profits be damned.
  — Kara McGrath, Allure, 10 July 2023
• Funny is in the ear of the listener, but perhaps the proof is in the empire, cornerstone be damned.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• While the songs were quickly embraced and added to the Drake canon—future ghostwriting rumours be damned—the cover alone was an overnight hit.
  — Hazlitt, 6 July 2022
• The show’s creative team claims a five-episode season was the plan all along, scathing criticism be damned; HBO has not come out and said the series has been cancelled.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• Damsel in distress be damned — Kim Petras is ready to liberate herself with her brand new album.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 23 June 2023
• Much of what follows represents Finn’s effort to prove his and Lily’s enduring love, death and its permanence be damned.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• Lascivious older men in abundance looking to hook up, codes of honor be damned.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
• Nor is there anything new about the thirst of newspapers, news programs and consumers of social media posts for spectacle and clickbait, facts be damned.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Are officers then obliged to let a suspect drive away, Ramsey County’s instructions be damned?
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• The general consensus seems to be that corporate America isn’t ready to change its uniform just yet, climate change be damned.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• Rockmore decided the simpler solution would be to paint the cherry wood cabinetry a matching navy with a high-gloss finish than to rip out walls of tile and start over—white kitchen fantasies be damned.
  — Claire Brito, House Beautiful, 15 Aug. 2023
• The next big corporation may look at the backlash-to-the-backlash-to-the-backlash and make the opposite calculation against an innocent group — truth and history be damned.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2023
• There was no way those players, or their teammates, would have stood for anything that endorsed discrimination, yellow cards be damned.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• These creations are whimsical, dainty, spring-y, and give you the sudden urge to throw a garden party, seasonal allergies be damned.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 5 May 2023
• The local warlord wants to go in guns blazing, hostage safety be damned, while foreign diplomats demand Beijing to do everything in its power to keep the foreigners alive.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
• On either side, shifting sandbars waited to chew up and spit out wayward traders, nationality be damned.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• McCoy was going to finish the prosecution of Kelton himself — politics and the mayor be damned.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• For one, interest rates be damned, being a solo manager has always had challenges.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Rage aplenty swirled around Alabama when it leap-frogged unbeaten Florida State to reach the playoffs at the wire, quarterback and strength-of-schedule arguments be damned.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
• Patel then went back to the set and immediately started trading blows for the camera once again, liability be damned.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
• On Thursday, Frasier Crane becomes the latest classic character to set sail for a mediocre, anticlimactic return, the god of bounds be damned.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• To parents the school is presumably a VIP ticket behind the velvet rope and entree to a typically impenetrable world—cult-like attributes be damned.
  — Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
• Despite the more than half-century that separated them, Gaga, 37, said Bennett was her confidant, age difference be damned.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 July 2023
• Cora countered by pinch hitting Rob Refsnyder for Duran, three doubles be damned.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• Kids teeth be damned Those arguments appeared to carry little weight with committee members who nearly unanimously approved the bill on a 16-1 vote.
  — Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
• Pumpkins be damned: Princess Ashley Graham’s carriage is a Lamborghini.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2023
• Rachel Weisz is a force of nature while doing the dual role thing to play Beverly and Elliot Mantle, twin gynecologists who will stop at nothing to reinvent the way people do childbirth—medical ethics be damned!
  — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024