revenge

“While revenge does appear to be the motive, I am of course neither of these girls or the investigators and I’m not privy to the statement that was given,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Three years ago, he embarked on a mission to investigate the incident, unaware that it would become a sweeping 600-plus-page revenge drama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

A year on he returns to wreak his revenge.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Can Dubois repeat his victory or will Wardley gain revenge and become a two-time world champion?

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

A cooling salve of revenge rose up within Fadi.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

“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

The whirligig of time, Grandage implies, brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2012

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

When the headmaster stood pat, the committee revenged itself by making fantastic changes in the curriculum, and the school went into a slump.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miriam Burns teed off this time with health on her side, with a determination to be revenged, with a caddy who rivalled Miss Cummings' faithful Joe Horgan for sagacity and devotion.

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

Now intent on revenging himself on his own fighter, Nick sends Ward into the ring with instructions calculated to allow the champion, whose manager has been informed of the plan, to win.

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