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retaliation
noun as in vengeance
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noun as in revenge
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“The homeless want to live here but then they don’t have any shame,” said a business owner at a nearby shop, who declined to give his name for fear of retaliation.
He also urged Lincoln to enforce more rigorously his recent order threatening retaliation against the Confederacy for executing captured black troops.
"High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars."
He has said he is willing to curtail energy and mineral exports to the U.S. in retaliation.
And Beijing’s retaliation was swift: It cut off rare-earth magnets to American companies, temporarily forcing some U.S. automobile factories to shut down.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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