revenge
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More than revenge, Cassie wants to embarrass potential assailants and jolt them, however briefly, out of their repugnant misogyny.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
This epic tale of love, loss, revenge and reconciliation might still have room for another chapter.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The best revenge is a great art life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
When foreign governments want revenge for U.S. tariffs, America’s most celebrated motorcycle manufacturer usually makes the hit list.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Maybe that had been the look of someone determined to get her revenge.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
“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
They are, wrote Dickens, “the curious old records of likings and dislikings; of jealousies and revenges; of affection defying the power of death, and hatred pursued beyond the grave.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015
The whirligig of time, Grandage implies, brings in its revenges.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2012
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
The god later revenged himself upon her by causing every prophecy she made to be totally disregarded.
From Time Magazine Archive
That some of the German people consider their defeat a dirty trick to be revenged some day is hardly spot news.
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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