vendetta

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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

He re-teamed with Pollack in “Jeremiah Johnson,” in which he played a mountain man who becomes the object of a vendetta.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

Benn limited his media interviews, but came close to tears while talking about a "vendetta" against him when speaking to Piers Morgan.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 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