avenger
Example Sentences
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In “One of Us,” Elizabeth Day’s shrewd novel of political ambition and personal retribution, the unlikely avenger is a diffident British art historian.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Sawai was magnificent for the way she deftly handled her character’s many facets — vassal, translator, warrior, lover, avenger.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024
Constructed out of Japan’s postwar atomic-bomb trauma, the King of the Monsters has proven a remarkably malleable character, playing environmental protector or atomic avenger with equal aplomb.
From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023
“She was the outsider prosecutor, the avenger who was going to come in and bring about change,” Mr. Axelrod said.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023
Try as he would, Cluny could not evade the grim avenger with the sword.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
