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avenger

[uh-ven-jer] / əˈvɛn dʒər /
NOUN
someone taking vengeance
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Later, its soft intoning of “The world’s avenger is no more” embodied the mourning and loss of hope after the death of Hercules.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Furiosa’s reticence is strategic, as well as a trait she shares with Mad Max himself, the model for her taciturn avenger.

From New York Times • May 17, 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

Ugandan investigative journalist Solomon Serwanjja said the tweeting showed that Gen Kainerugaba - commonly referred to as Muhoozi, meaning "avenger" - is a serving military officer with political ambitions.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2022

Try as he would, Cluny could not evade the grim avenger with the sword.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques



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