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vigilante

[vij-uh-lan-tee] / ˌvɪdʒ əˈlæn ti /




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America’s most-loved fictional titans, Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, have bottomless wealth to fund their vigilante adventures, making them especially mesmerizing to an audience raised on rags-to-riches fables.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

The first time he decided to trash one of the cameras, a self-styled vigilante wearing all black and known as Nomark says he was "super nervous."

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

Plenty of people here sympathize with the mystery vigilante.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

If you were a TV show, nothing would be more certain to gain my attention than to be a French-made, French-language series about Zorro, the masked vigilante swordsman of old Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

He would become known as a vigilante who published “HeLa Hit Lists” in Science, listing any contaminated lines he found, along with the names of researchers who’d given him the cells.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Besides, though the presence of armed vigilantes helped many in town feel safer, the fact remained that much of Michoacán was still lawless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

One of the vigilantes meets us outside his group's headquarters, a single-storey concrete building, and agrees to speak on the condition of anonymity during our visit in July.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

He coined the term bond vigilantes in 1983.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

So even though the so-called bond vigilantes may have taken a brief break from selling bonds, they probably haven’t gone away for good.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Well, he would be ill-advised to repeat this ploy once my punctuation vigilantes are on the loose.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author




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