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
Btw. how many times did any of so many Polish TV channels broadcast, a charge de revanche, their film "1612"?
From Economist ● Nov. 23, 2012
I shall have my revanche against this proud refugee for the slight he has put upon me in the eyes of the English people.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
