avenger
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In “Le Morte d’Arthur,” Thomas Malory brings an ancient world to life with the story of what happens when blind emotion overrides thought and vengeance becomes the ruin of the avenger.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
A pair of abuelas named Dina and Mita go into avenger mode when a young guy grabs the last bag of Dinamita chips.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024
Constructed out of Japan’s postwar atomic-bomb trauma, the King of the Monsters has proven a remarkably malleable character, playing environmental protector or atomic avenger with equal aplomb.
From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023
He may not wear that obsession on his skin like Leonard Shelby, the amnesia-stricken avenger in “Memento,” or parade his demons in as symbolic a fashion as Bruce Wayne does in the “Dark Knight” trilogy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
Try as he would, Cluny could not evade the grim avenger with the sword.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Words from "The Avengers"
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