vengeance
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Then, it was a more daring saga about a woman from very humble beginnings taking raw talent to the top of the retail world, motivated by a mix of ambition and vengeance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
According to the film’s logline, Kara’s encounter with “an unexpected and ruthless adversary” leads her to “reluctantly join forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
What we see isn’t gratuitous government cruelty, chaos or vengeance.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
Lee Marvin plays an implacable man out for vengeance in this 1967 thriller, arriving in a 4K restoration, that keeps the audience at a cool remove.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Singly they found their way to his door, wrapped each in a shroud stitched with anger, yearning, pride, vengeance, loneliness, misery, defeat, and hunger.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing vengeance
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