as in avenged
to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for
retaliated his neighbor's malicious destruction of his flower garden by cutting down the man's prize apple tree
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Recent Examples of retaliated
China’s government retaliated last week by banning the sale of materials essential for manufacturing the chips, including germanium and gallium.
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David Goldman, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest retail mortgage lender, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government seeking dismissal of a claim that the lender retaliated against a Black woman who says she was racially discriminated against in a mortgage refinance.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
The homeowner filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division alleging that Rocket Mortgage and the appraiser discriminated against her on the basis of race and color in an appraisal of her property and that Rocket Mortgage retaliated against her for raising the concerns.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
As Lawrence stayed on the ground, a teammate, Evan Engram, retaliated against Al-Shaair, sparking the first of two fights between the teams.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2024
Moscow has since retaliated with a hypersonic missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, which targeted a military facility.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
Israel retaliated with airstrikes, and the conflict steadily intensified for nearly a year before boiling over into all-out war in mid-September.
—Julia Frankel, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 2024
According to Min, NewJeans was plagiarized and slighted in favor of other HYBE girl groups, and she was retaliated against for protecting her band’s interests.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
China immediately retaliated by placing a 25% tariff on 545 goods amounting to 34 billion dollars of trade to include aircraft.
—Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
David Goldman, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest retail mortgage lender, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government seeking dismissal of a claim that the lender retaliated against a Black woman who says she was racially discriminated against in a mortgage refinance.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
The homeowner filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division alleging that Rocket Mortgage and the appraiser discriminated against her on the basis of race and color in an appraisal of her property and that Rocket Mortgage retaliated against her for raising the concerns.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
As Lawrence stayed on the ground, a teammate, Evan Engram, retaliated against Al-Shaair, sparking the first of two fights between the teams.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2024
Moscow has since retaliated with a hypersonic missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, which targeted a military facility.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
Israel retaliated with airstrikes, and the conflict steadily intensified for nearly a year before boiling over into all-out war in mid-September.
—Julia Frankel, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 2024
According to Min, NewJeans was plagiarized and slighted in favor of other HYBE girl groups, and she was retaliated against for protecting her band’s interests.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
China immediately retaliated by placing a 25% tariff on 545 goods amounting to 34 billion dollars of trade to include aircraft.
—Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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