vigilante
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Local officials say they are working with security agencies and vigilante groups for the safe release of the monarch.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
He insists that he isn’t “a one-man vigilante committee, going around trying to get people to take their feet off train seats. I suppose I’ve done it only about 10 times.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Indeed, a nemesis dismisses John Cena’s namesake vigilante, whose real name is Chris Smith, as “a jingoistic garbage person with the musical taste of the next-door bully from ‘Toy Story.’”
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025
She had a starring role in Josh Margolin’s 2024 movie “Thelma,” an action comedy about an unlikely 93-year-old vigilante who jumps on a motorized scooter to reclaim the money she lost in a scam.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
He would become known as a vigilante who published “HeLa Hit Lists” in Science, listing any contaminated lines he found, along with the names of researchers who’d given him the cells.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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