vengeance
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Making vengeance look human again is Harris’ great strength.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
Their destruction, he suggests, is not vengeance but good governance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
The worries about software stocks—the so-called SaaSpocalypse—returned with a vengeance on Friday, expanding across the tech complex to chips and other hardware plays, as well.
From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026
What is a rather staid drama about the weight of social expectations on a relationship becomes a dramatically unexpected game of vengeance as Jennifer and Fernando grasp at any power they have over the other.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
The servant’s prayer, after the cloudless thunder of Zeus, Odysseus heard with lifting heart, sure in his bones that vengeance was at hand.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Vocabulary lists containing vengeance
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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