revenge

"We cannot build the new Hungary on revenge," András Baka told Parliament, after he was elected by 140 votes to 6.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Instead, might we suggest an inspiring essay on democracy, or a fun quiz, or a movie recommendation, or even a series of fun pieces on revenge?

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

He can get revenge by walloping the next pitch for a hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

That’s why that adage about living well being the best revenge tends to be offered to the party on the losing end of a betrayal.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

In a quarrel with Gudrun she learns the truth and she plans her revenge.

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

“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

My wife and I have gone through a lot since July, and it's not a matter of being revenged or anything like that.

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

Now intent on revenging himself on his own fighter, Nick sends Ward into the ring with instructions calculated to allow the champion, whose manager has been informed of the plan, to win.

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