vendetta
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I’ve seen Tanden get into a headline-making spat with progressive blogger Matt Bruenig; I’ve even watched her carry on a one-sided vendetta against Susan Sarandon.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
"No member of parliament with me will use this institution for a personal vendetta", Sonko said, speaking in Wolof.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Later Roman writers dressed up the Punic Wars as an ancestral vendetta of the Barcids, the family to which Hannibal belonged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
One of the officers involved told those investigating the complaint that Tewson, 32, had developed a "personal vendetta" against them.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Adams responded with uncharacteristic calmness to this personal vendetta.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Financing statements — meant to record legitimate business liens — are now a vehicle for conspiracy-laced claims, trillion-dollar demands and vendettas against politicians, businesses and public employees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
But there is a Venn diagram to his vendettas, an overlap in his circle of obsessions.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2025
Regardless, the series picks up steam, propulsion and speed once a viewer gets past the establishment of all the characters and their vendettas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Bhutto-Zardari, 35, has vowed to end the personal vendettas that characterize Pakistan’s politics and has also urged for investment in climate resilience as a key to the nation’s survival.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
And yet so full of contradictions is their character, that all this is without prejudice to what has been written of their family vendettas and private blood feuds.
From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill
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