revenge
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Every week, Neeta Bhojwani spends hours binge-watching dramas about wealthy men pretending to be poor and angry ghosts out for revenge.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
None of these reforms would be a silver bullet against revenge prosecutions, but together they would make such abuses far harder to carry out.
From Slate • May 1, 2026
Iran is no bastion of free expression, in other words, which anyone bopping to those raps about enacting revenge on “the Baal-worshipping Epstein crew” must remember.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
It can cause a marriage to end, unleash a desire for revenge and influence how the divorcing couple’s children think about money as adults.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
At my age, that is what I knew of revenge.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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