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revenge

[ri-venj] / rɪˈvɛndʒ /




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The actor stars as a bodyguard out for revenge and on a cargo ship in this lackluster action thriller.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The nerd didn’t quite get revenge, but actor Robert Carradine and Hans Stuck ran a spirited, back-and-forth race Sunday in the Bridgestone Potenza Supercar Race.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Their conversation explores characters who hide their true nature behind carefully constructed personas, the role of technology in enabling obsession and revenge, and the social rituals that define contemporary London.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2026

"We cannot build the new Hungary on revenge," András Baka told Parliament, after he was elected by 140 votes to 6.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

When they’d defeated her at the Wolf House in Sonoma, the snow goddess had vowed revenge.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

“By most mechanical hand, I shall have such revenges on you,” Peter warns early on, gloriously emanating beams of loathing at the always mildly amused Ford.

From Time Dec. 7, 2016

He is an enigmatic born leader, a delicate object of myriad desires and revenges, a picker of flowers and performer of mime.

From Slate Jan. 11, 2016

The whirligig of time, Grandage implies, brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian Dec. 10, 2012

Yet the whirligig of time brings in its revenges.

From The Guardian Mar. 14, 2011

Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

I, like everyone else, have several times been a victim of harassment in the workplace but we must not throw out fairness in our determination to be revenged on such behavior.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2017

It went to his head and he soon became insufferable, alienating all his new literary "friends", who revenged themselves when he published his second novel, The Double.

From The Guardian Sep. 24, 2010

By crushing the "Old Regulars," which had not lost a New Orleans election in 50 years, Senator Long revenged the organization's break with him last year, its defeat of his candidate for mayor in January.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miriam Burns teed off this time with health on her side, with a determination to be revenged, with a caddy who rivalled Miss Cummings' faithful Joe Horgan for sagacity and devotion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hera revenged herself, but only after many years.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

As he tells it, logistics discount the revenging Middle Missourian theory.

From Washington Times Feb. 9, 2015

Walt is in this for glory, for self-aggrandizement, for revenging his younger self.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2012

More recent films refuse to see Jane as a victim and treat her as an artist who, like her creator, has secret ways of revenging herself on the world.

From The Guardian Aug. 20, 2011

Before long the Allied flyers were revenging their "Fokker fodder" with a synchronized gun of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lieutenant Scheisskopf’s wife was revenging herself upon Lieutenant Scheisskopf for some unforgettable crime of his she couldn’t recall.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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