revenge
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of thousands of Afghans scrambled to leave the country, terrified that the Islamists would exact revenge on anyone who had helped the West.
From Barron's
He wants revenge on reporters who ask him questions he doesn’t want to answer and those who write things he doesn’t like.
From Salon
Some experts say the air-travel industry is experiencing something of a natural decline in demand — and in turn, pricing — following the “revenge travel” boom of the postpandemic period.
From MarketWatch
For an animated feature, “Scarlet” is unusually ambitious: It’s a “Hamlet”-adjacent existential pacifist revenge parable.
The Saints play hard weekly despite limited talent, but Carolina wants revenge after New Orleans took the first matchup.
From Los Angeles Times
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