retribution

Example Sentences

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By filing the lawsuit, the student said he realizes there could be retribution.

From Los Angeles Times

If Trump wins, expect his pledges to invoke the Insurrection Act, provoke political violence, focus on retribution, pardon the January 6 criminals, blow up our alliances and form a new one with dictators.

From Salon

Instead, it now views the state as a mechanism to exact retribution, discipline and punish members of that society.

From Salon

“Just last week that person was talking about political retribution.”

From Los Angeles Times

But there also was a strong sentiment that retribution should be the work of an alliance of Muslim and other sympathetic forces, not Iran alone or even at the fore.

From Los Angeles Times