vendetta

Example Sentences

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A vendetta between the billionaire founders of Two Sigma Investments flared up last month, prompting a new leadership battle at their $70 billion hedge-fund firm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

One of the officers involved told those investigating the complaint that Tewson, 32, had developed a "personal vendetta" against them.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 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

I don't think he, like has a personal vendetta, for Puerto Rico.”

From Salon • Mar. 16, 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