revenge
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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
After Kasparov, then the world champion, beat IBM’s Deep Blue in 1996, the computer earned its robot revenge in a 1997 rematch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
So, is this match revenge for the side ranked third in the world?
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Dutch number one Gian van Veen gained a measure of revenge for the home fans with a 6-2 triumph over Chris Dobey.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The captain growled at the boys and cuffed their heads, while Madame Babushkinov tried to comfort her daughter with promises of new dresses and plots of revenge against her brothers.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
“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
The whirligig of time, Grandage implies, brings in its revenges.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2012
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
Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hera revenged herself, but only after many years.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
This time Will Rogers is a lovable tramp named Jubilo, vaguely desirous of revenging himself on a man who made off with his wife during the War.
From Time Magazine Archive
On everyone’s lips was the news that Norway’s Prince Fortinbras was marching toward Denmark, bent on revenging his father’s defeat.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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