revanche
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In a public statement, Serebrennikov described how, even in the country’s gathering conservative revanche, it had seemed that some “free air” remained, if only “in fashionable cafes, at home, with friends”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2020
They actually predicted as early as 1999 that there was a possibility of totalitarian revanche.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2017
This time, however, the “White House defenders” were the forces for revanche, and the term’s association with freedom faded.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2016
“By revanche , I mean the resurrection of the great state in which we lived, which we became used to,” Pavlovsky explained.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2015
Dearest Mamma,—Being at last in Frankfurt, and having seen Steinle and his works, and, en revanche, shown him mine, I sit down to write to you.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Mrs. Russell Barrington
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