vengeance
Example Sentences
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What we see isn’t gratuitous government cruelty, chaos or vengeance.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
It also was a place with "no sword, no drone, no vengeance, no trivialisation of evil, no unjust profit, but only dignity, understanding and forgiveness."
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
Their destruction, he suggests, is not vengeance but good governance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
He said there would be "secrets, betrayals, vengeance and perhaps one last dinner party", referring to a famous scene from series two.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
All that afternoon she directed toward me calculated words that spawned in my mind a horde of invisible demons bent upon exacting vengeance for what I had done.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing vengeance
Words from "The Avengers"
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 1
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