avenger
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In “One of Us,” Elizabeth Day’s shrewd novel of political ambition and personal retribution, the unlikely avenger is a diffident British art historian.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Constructed out of Japan’s postwar atomic-bomb trauma, the King of the Monsters has proven a remarkably malleable character, playing environmental protector or atomic avenger with equal aplomb.
From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023
McCall — an enigmatic avenger played by Denzel Washington — likes tea, but he’s fine with the coffee that a beautiful server brings him with a smile.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2023
Hal Prince, in his original 1979 production, made Sweeney an avenger of Victorian era industrialization.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2023
So where does he get off to call me a public avenger and a sadist and everything?
From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
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