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vigilante

[vij-uh-lan-tee] / ˌvɪdʒ əˈlæn ti /




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In Prime Video’s “Spider-Noir,” he played Ben Reilly, a hapless and jaded private eye who used to moonlight as a masked vigilante known as the Spider until the love of his life was murdered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The bond market wasn’t being a vigilante, as some would argue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

America’s most-loved fictional titans, Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, have bottomless wealth to fund their vigilante adventures, making them especially mesmerizing to an audience raised on rags-to-riches fables.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

The army said the children and staff were rescued following "carefully planned and executed" operations alongside intelligence agencies, police and local vigilante groups.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

“That’s what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

In response, on May 15, 1850, armed vigilantes and the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The authorities say the new vigilantes are better trained, but Samuel, from Good Governance Africa, calls them a "time bomb waiting to happen".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

He coined the term bond vigilantes in 1983.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

So even though the so-called bond vigilantes may have taken a brief break from selling bonds, they probably haven’t gone away for good.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Yes, some of us were born to be punctuation vigilantes.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author


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