vendetta
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"No member of parliament with me will use this institution for a personal vendetta", Sonko said, speaking in Wolof.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
It will be more orderly and less chaotic, less driven by impulse and vendetta, more discriminating between allies and adversaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
During a fringe event at Labour's party conference this week, Rachel Reeves reportedly joked the government had a vendetta against the peer.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
He re-teamed with Pollack in “Jeremiah Johnson,” in which he played a mountain man who becomes the object of a vendetta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
The colt spent three years plunging around the track in devil-possessed rages and nurturing a vendetta against the hapless assistant starters assigned to hold his head in the doorless starting gate.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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It also exposed the AI boom’s underbelly: the grubby sidedeals, financial anxieties, short tempers and personal vendettas that have shaped modern technology every bit as much as the march toward machine consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Financing statements — meant to record legitimate business liens — are now a vehicle for conspiracy-laced claims, trillion-dollar demands and vendettas against politicians, businesses and public employees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
But for him, the priority is mostly about personal vendettas.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025
Bhutto-Zardari, 35, has vowed to end the personal vendettas that characterize Pakistan’s politics and has also urged for investment in climate resilience as a key to the nation’s survival.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The palace, inside and out, is a monument to the most famous of Corsican vendettas.
From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White
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