revanche
Example Sentences
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In a public statement, Serebrennikov described how, even in the country’s gathering conservative revanche, it had seemed that some “free air” remained, if only “in fashionable cafes, at home, with friends”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2020
They actually predicted as early as 1999 that there was a possibility of totalitarian revanche.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2017
This time, however, the “White House defenders” were the forces for revanche, and the term’s association with freedom faded.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2016
Btw. how many times did any of so many Polish TV channels broadcast, a charge de revanche, their film "1612"?
From Economist ● Nov. 23, 2012
I say this is a curious fact in natural history, and it seems a sort of retaliatory principle established between these two kinds of reptiles, as if they ate one another’s offspring en revanche.
From The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon by Harrison Weir
