revenge

But his opening did not repeat June’s detailed discussion of a French rap video featuring fires or its explicit description of revenge against society as a motive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“While revenge does appear to be the motive, I am of course neither of these girls or the investigators and I’m not privy to the statement that was given,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The superb cast also includes Janai Brugger as the enslaved Mrs. Francis Hodge, perched on a tree branch, who demands revenge on the man who stole her children in a furious high soprano.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Can Dubois repeat his victory or will Wardley gain revenge and become a two-time world champion?

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

“Or maybe someone’s already gotten their revenge on the Cavanaughs,” Connor said.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

“By most mechanical hand, I shall have such revenges on you,” Peter warns early on, gloriously emanating beams of loathing at the always mildly amused Ford.

From Time ● Dec. 7, 2016

He is an enigmatic born leader, a delicate object of myriad desires and revenges, a picker of flowers and performer of mime.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2016

They are, wrote Dickens, “the curious old records of likings and dislikings; of jealousies and revenges; of affection defying the power of death, and hatred pursued beyond the grave.”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015

The whirligig of time, Grandage implies, brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2012

Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

I, like everyone else, have several times been a victim of harassment in the workplace but we must not throw out fairness in our determination to be revenged on such behavior.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017

It went to his head and he soon became insufferable, alienating all his new literary "friends", who revenged themselves when he published his second novel, The Double.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010

By crushing the "Old Regulars," which had not lost a New Orleans election in 50 years, Senator Long revenged the organization's break with him last year, its defeat of his candidate for mayor in January.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the headmaster stood pat, the committee revenged itself by making fantastic changes in the curriculum, and the school went into a slump.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nourishing a grievance against the Arch- Community-Songster was useless; there was no possibility of being revenged on the Chief Bottler or the Assistant Predestinator.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

As he tells it, logistics discount the revenging Middle Missourian theory.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2015

Walt is in this for glory, for self-aggrandizement, for revenging his younger self.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2012

More recent films refuse to see Jane as a victim and treat her as an artist who, like her creator, has secret ways of revenging herself on the world.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2011

This time Will Rogers is a lovable tramp named Jubilo, vaguely desirous of revenging himself on a man who made off with his wife during the War.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was revenging himself on his two friends for liking one another more than they liked him.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley