vendetta
Example Sentences
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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
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
He re-teamed with Pollack in “Jeremiah Johnson,” in which he played a mountain man who becomes the object of a vendetta.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
I don’t think he, like has a personal vendetta, for Puerto Rico.”
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2025
Was he motivated by a promise of immunity, or was it a personal vendetta against Faraday?
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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