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

En revanche, le texte complet demeure absolument inchangé.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 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

In revenge he shaved off his moustache, fitted a large newspaper cocked hat upon his head, and strutted fiercely up and down the central aisle, looking the very personification of revanche.

From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John