vigilante
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So we took that story, where the mayor’s side has no quarter for the vigilante side and the vigilante side has no quarter for the mayor’s side.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
A self-styled "pothole vigilante" from Horsham has become a social media star by planting flowers in damaged roads across West Sussex.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 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
“That’s what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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