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• A couple hatch a twisted plan to take revenge on the man who killed their son.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• The story sees an ancient witch take revenge on a gang of rapists.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• Tom’s half-baked plan is to take revenge by stealing cash-advance checks from the banker’s trash.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• Then his need to take revenge or go after the people who have wronged him overtakes him.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2024
• Led by Myrtha, their queen, the women take revenge in the night by dancing men to death by exhaustion.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
• Kalloch’s son, Isaac Milton Kalloch, was a brooding young man who had vowed to take revenge on the man who shot his father.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2021
• The first season concluded with a bloody massacre, as the reprogrammed hosts rose up to take revenge on the guests.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 May 2022
• For these people, who come from very poor environments and backgrounds, the bike is a way to take revenge on the card fate dealt them.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2022
• The Houthis had threaten to take revenge against the Emirates and Saudi Arabia over those attacks.
  — NBC News, 25 Jan. 2022
• Two teenage girls who agree to take revenge upon each other’s bullies.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2021
• They’re then caught up in the curse of a witch who was killed 300 years earlier and has returned to take revenge on the descendants of her murderers.
  — Josh Bell, Vulture, 19 July 2022
• Akira, who was the concierge of the hotel, approaches Caine in the post-credits scene to take revenge for her father’s death, perhaps teasing a showdown to come.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• When his father disappears, John B. is left to find him, and, if needed, take revenge on whoever might have killed him.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 8 June 2024
• In Hill’s 1973 hit, Grier plays the titular ER nurse–slash–angel of vengeance looking to take revenge on the dealers and crooks and pimps who destroyed her younger sister’s life.
  — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
• Unfortunately, one of those apps has seemingly decided to take revenge on all of the users who dared delete it.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 5 May 2022
• Iran vowed to take revenge for the killing of a senior Revolutionary Guard officer in Syria last month.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• The film’s premise arose from a simple question: If a woman in real life wanted to take revenge on men who prey on inebriated women, what would that look like?
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2020
• In this dark comedy, three divorcées—and longtime friends—decide to take revenge on their ex-husbands who each left them for younger women.
  — Kara Thompson, Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2022
• Everyone who lost a family member wants to take revenge.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• Videos circulated on social media of armed Druse men threatening to take revenge against Palestinians.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• The flimsiest strand follows Russell (Etienne Kellici), an adolescent boy who manages to outride the Apache horsemen pursuing him, then later wrestles with his conscience about how and against whom to take revenge for his losses.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
• Their characters work together to take revenge on their sexist, authoritarian boss played by Coleman.
  — Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• Sanada plays the boy’s grandfather, identified only as The Elder (like all the other characters, with dual-language onscreen text), a sternly disapproving man who commands his boozing son to take revenge and restore the family’s honor.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2022
• Portrayed as a repentant man who has turned over a new leaf after being inspired by his favorite Bible passage 1 Corinthians 5:17, Edima feels compelled to take revenge for his son’s death after failing to convince authorities his son is innocent.
  — Chinedu Asadu, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
• Midway through Biden’s first term, supporters of Donald Trump popularized a series of memes depicting the former president as a domineering, Thanos-like figure with blue laser eyes — out to take revenge on his liberal enemies.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• Occasionally, the opponent stole money from the participants, who could then either choose to take revenge, with no monetary gain for themselves, or let their opponent get away with it but continue collecting more money for themselves.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024