vengeance
Example Sentences
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What we see isn’t gratuitous government cruelty, chaos or vengeance.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
Their destruction, he suggests, is not vengeance but good governance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Crowds gathered on Sunday in Iran's south to call for vengeance following the killing of Khamenei in US and Israeli attacks, Iranian media reported.
From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026
What is a rather staid drama about the weight of social expectations on a relationship becomes a dramatically unexpected game of vengeance as Jennifer and Fernando grasp at any power they have over the other.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
It was hardly the vengeance he’d dreamed of.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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Vocabulary lists containing vengeance
Words from "The Avengers"
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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