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settle a score
verb as in pay
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The judge said that King's actions, including chasing officers and continuing to shoot at them, were evidence of him "attempting to settle a score with police".
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“I think I have to settle a score with this guy,” she concluded.
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And now he might want to settle a score with his rival.
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It would also show Mr. Trump, in his own voice, invoking a sensitive government document to settle a score.
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The motives can be to grab land, to ostracize a woman to settle a score, or to justify violence.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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