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

This time, however, the “White House defenders” were the forces for revanche, and the term’s association with freedom faded.

From The New Yorker

“By revanche , I mean the resurrection of the great state in which we lived, which we became used to,” Pavlovsky explained.

From Washington Post

The response became known centuries later as “la revanche des berceaux.”

From Washington Post

Putin was one of the people who until the end of the 1990s was passively waiting for the moment of revanche.

From The Guardian