vengeance

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In Sokolov’s “They Will Kill You,” written with Alex Litvak, that premise is combined with a Tarantino-esque taste for kung fu movies and nonlinear storytelling, as well as a “John Wick”-style quest for vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Their destruction, he suggests, is not vengeance but good governance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

"I named him Muhoozi, which means vengeance, such that when someone wrongs me, he avenges," Museveni once explained.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

We get a taste of these Machiavels, who have none of the misgivings about vengeance that will plague Hamlet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

It would surely be believed that they were plotting vengeance.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin