revenge

If he somehow finds a miraculous recharge for his ring, he will use his superpower to foment further revenge and retribution.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

When foreign governments want revenge for U.S. tariffs, America’s most celebrated motorcycle manufacturer usually makes the hit list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

It became known as her "revenge" outfit, because she wasn't nominated for anything.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Rangers looking to lay down another marker going to Celtic's home, full of 60,000 folk baying for revenge.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Tucker took out Number Seven with a solid hit, but Number Seven took revenge mid-period and flattened Tucker.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

“By most mechanical hand, I shall have such revenges on you,” Peter warns early on, gloriously emanating beams of loathing at the always mildly amused Ford.

From Time ● Dec. 7, 2016

He is an enigmatic born leader, a delicate object of myriad desires and revenges, a picker of flowers and performer of mime.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2016

They are, wrote Dickens, “the curious old records of likings and dislikings; of jealousies and revenges; of affection defying the power of death, and hatred pursued beyond the grave.”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015

Yet the whirligig of time brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011

Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

I, like everyone else, have several times been a victim of harassment in the workplace but we must not throw out fairness in our determination to be revenged on such behavior.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017

It went to his head and he soon became insufferable, alienating all his new literary "friends", who revenged themselves when he published his second novel, The Double.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010

That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.*

From Time Magazine Archive

By crushing the "Old Regulars," which had not lost a New Orleans election in 50 years, Senator Long revenged the organization's break with him last year, its defeat of his candidate for mayor in January.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nourishing a grievance against the Arch- Community-Songster was useless; there was no possibility of being revenged on the Chief Bottler or the Assistant Predestinator.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

As he tells it, logistics discount the revenging Middle Missourian theory.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2015

Walt is in this for glory, for self-aggrandizement, for revenging his younger self.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2012

More recent films refuse to see Jane as a victim and treat her as an artist who, like her creator, has secret ways of revenging herself on the world.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2011

Before long the Allied flyers were revenging their "Fokker fodder" with a synchronized gun of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen