retaliation
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Most day laborers declined to have their names included in The Times for fear of retaliation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The question, he added, is whether both sides will start a "cycle of escalation and retaliation."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Predictably, the administration reacted to this media pushback with furious legal and political retaliation.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Arab states fear Israeli strikes would trigger Iranian retaliation against their energy infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
In retaliation, Conkling tried to stop Garfield's many other nominations from getting necessary Senate approval.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
The cooling of tensions could draw U.S. investors back to Chinese stocks—after wariness about tit-for-tat retaliations between the two superpowers—and boost that market.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
American forces have at times mounted retaliations, but in limited fashion to avoid instigating a full-fledged conflict.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
Experts say that the war-fighting plans in general go from warning shots to single strikes to multiple retaliations and that the hardest question is whether there are reliable ways to prevent a conflict from escalating.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
The agreement — which still needs to be finalized — comes after years of diplomatic tit-for-tat retaliations that have left the embassy badly understaffed, down from 1,200 personnel five years ago to just 120 now.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
The result was continual jealousies, dissensions, and sometimes reprisals and retaliations.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford
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