revanche
Example Sentences
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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
With the young Welshman a joke might be carried to extremes, and he would only seek his revanche by a lark of like kind.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
