revenge
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The original, based on author Lauren Weisberger’s thinly veiled, workplace revenge fantasy about her time assisting Vogue’s editor in chief, Anna Wintour, was a huge hit, grossing more than $326.5 million worldwide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Yet one of the best of all revenge movies declines to make its protagonist available for easy audience identification.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
"Every Hungary deserves a public service media that broadcasts the truth," he told Kossuth radio, explaining he was not after personal revenge, even though he and his family had been insulted "morning, noon and night".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
This is what author David Sax has termed “the revenge of the analog.”
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026
Mamita, furious at hearing her husband canonized at her expense, took her revenge.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing revenge
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