revenge

If he somehow finds a miraculous recharge for his ring, he will use his superpower to foment further revenge and retribution.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

This epic tale of love, loss, revenge and reconciliation might still have room for another chapter.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

When foreign governments want revenge for U.S. tariffs, America’s most celebrated motorcycle manufacturer usually makes the hit list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

She won a Grammy that year for her break-up anthem, Flowers - perhaps it was her own version of a "revenge" dress.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Despite having been trapped in her own webbing, smashed by a car, and plunged into Tartarus, the spider lady had gotten her revenge.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

“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

That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hera revenged herself, but only after many years.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

On everyone’s lips was the news that Norway’s Prince Fortinbras was marching toward Denmark, bent on revenging his father’s defeat.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein