revenge
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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was stalked by a crowd that carried red flags, a symbol of revenge, and called him dishonorable as he was pelted with an unknown object.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Jackson didn’t get a chance for revenge after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament in May, making the Sparks’ 102-87 win at Crypto.com Arena not a true litmus test.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
It was certainly part of the game when Arsenal thrashed Manchester City 5-1 in February 2025, Gabriel celebrating a goal for his side by bellowing in Haaland's face in an act of sweet revenge.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
By the end, screenwriter Ana Nogueira tees up some compelling moral dilemmas about the ethics of revenge, but Gillespie’s direction fails to entertain them with the weight they deserve.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
When we got back to the dock at my house, Digger was itchy for revenge.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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“By most mechanical hand, I shall have such revenges on you,” Peter warns early on, gloriously emanating beams of loathing at the always mildly amused Ford.
From Time ● Dec. 7, 2016
He is an enigmatic born leader, a delicate object of myriad desires and revenges, a picker of flowers and performer of mime.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2016
They are, wrote Dickens, “the curious old records of likings and dislikings; of jealousies and revenges; of affection defying the power of death, and hatred pursued beyond the grave.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015
Yet the whirligig of time brings in its revenges.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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I, like everyone else, have several times been a victim of harassment in the workplace but we must not throw out fairness in our determination to be revenged on such behavior.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017
It went to his head and he soon became insufferable, alienating all his new literary "friends", who revenged themselves when he published his second novel, The Double.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010
My wife and I have gone through a lot since July, and it's not a matter of being revenged or anything like that.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Miriam Burns teed off this time with health on her side, with a determination to be revenged, with a caddy who rivalled Miss Cummings' faithful Joe Horgan for sagacity and devotion.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Nourishing a grievance against the Arch- Community-Songster was useless; there was no possibility of being revenged on the Chief Bottler or the Assistant Predestinator.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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As he tells it, logistics discount the revenging Middle Missourian theory.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2015
Walt is in this for glory, for self-aggrandizement, for revenging his younger self.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2012
More recent films refuse to see Jane as a victim and treat her as an artist who, like her creator, has secret ways of revenging herself on the world.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2011
Now intent on revenging himself on his own fighter, Nick sends Ward into the ring with instructions calculated to allow the champion, whose manager has been informed of the plan, to win.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On everyone’s lips was the news that Norway’s Prince Fortinbras was marching toward Denmark, bent on revenging his father’s defeat.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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