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vendetta

[ven-det-uh] / vɛnˈdɛt ə /


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"No member of parliament with me will use this institution for a personal vendetta", Sonko said, speaking in Wolof.

From Barron's May 26, 2026

It will be more orderly and less chaotic, less driven by impulse and vendetta, more discriminating between allies and adversaries.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 21, 2026

Erik Charlotte VonSosen opens up about her designing process, drag culture’s influence on her work and her vendetta against Pinterest.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 18, 2025

Betro, a childhood development and graphic design graduate from the US city of West Allis, arrived in the UK in August 2019 to carry out Aslam and Nazir's vendetta.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2025

Born in Polish-Ukrainian Galicia, Rabi was the levelheaded physicist who had tartly denounced Strauss’s vendetta against Oppenheimer and had attempted, if fruitlessly, to talk Lawrence and Alvarez down from their starry-eyed pursuit of the Super.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Feldstein Soto has also been accused of mismanaging her office and using the city’s prosecutorial powers for personal vendettas in multiple lawsuits, allegations she has repeatedly denied.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

Some of his extracurricular fixations—personal vendettas, online foolery—could get less attention.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

But there is a Venn diagram to his vendettas, an overlap in his circle of obsessions.

From Salon Nov. 10, 2025

Mr Turnbull, who is also area manager at Cleveland Fire Brigade, said personal vendettas and inter-community disputes also play a part.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2024

A code of honour not less punctilious than that of old Spain, is supported by vendettas as implacable as those of Corsica.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill




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