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

France, no doubt, brooded over the possibility of a revanche, but no other country envied us our success or desired either to damage our prestige or to interfere with our growing commerce.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 by Various