Example Sentences

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In a revanchist backlash, music was a balm.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

And Mr. Scott is an unlikely bearer of his revanchist message.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

Beginning as a feud between culturally ambitious game critics and a claque of revanchist fans, Gamergate became a free-floating snowball of grievance.

From The Verge • Dec. 12, 2019

Take Michael Gove, a revanchist endorsement of the science of physiognomy.

From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2019

After an attack by the aforementioned revanchist splinter group, the three “piled into the main bed and spooned together, trying to feel protected and safe.”

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2015