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vendetta

[ven-det-uh] / vɛnˈdɛt ə /


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Wu called the lawsuit a "machine reaction, not a personal vendetta".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

"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

Later Roman writers dressed up the Punic Wars as an ancestral vendetta of the Barcids, the family to which Hannibal belonged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

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

Apparently Adolf Hitler has a vendetta against tobacco, finds it filthy and disgusting, and his military police and their assistants are not meant to smoke at work.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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