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vendetta

[ven-det-uh] / vɛnˈdɛt ə /


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"No member of parliament with me will use this institution for a personal vendetta", Sonko said, speaking in Wolof.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

It will be more orderly and less chaotic, less driven by impulse and vendetta, more discriminating between allies and adversaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Erik Charlotte VonSosen opens up about her designing process, drag culture’s influence on her work and her vendetta against Pinterest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

During a fringe event at Labour's party conference this week, Rachel Reeves reportedly joked the government had a vendetta against the peer.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

Adams responded with uncharacteristic calmness to this personal vendetta.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Some of his extracurricular fixations—personal vendettas, online foolery—could get less attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Financing statements — meant to record legitimate business liens — are now a vehicle for conspiracy-laced claims, trillion-dollar demands and vendettas against politicians, businesses and public employees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026

So this latest declaration may be yet another of his vendettas.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2024

Mr Turnbull, who is also area manager at Cleveland Fire Brigade, said personal vendettas and inter-community disputes also play a part.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2024

There is a limit—one finds it by experience, Beetle—beyond which it is never safe to pursue private vendettas, because—don't move—sooner or later one comes—into collision with the—higher authority, who has studied the animal.

From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling




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