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
He also said it was "staggering" that Netflix had given creative control to 50 Cent, who he described as "a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta".
From BBC • Dec. 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
“Do we have to start a vendetta against Rita Skeeter as well?”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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