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• The story sees an ancient witch take revenge on a gang of rapists.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• A couple hatch a twisted plan to take revenge on the man who killed their son.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Two teenage girls who agree to take revenge upon each other’s bullies.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In a bid to find the driver and take revenge, Dutch embarks on a strange psychic training course designed to unlock his latent mind powers.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
• Supporters cheer even his promises to take revenge on his enemies and dismantle the government.
  — Sam Jacobs, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The Houthis had threaten to take revenge against the Emirates and Saudi Arabia over those attacks.
  — NBC News, 25 Jan. 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
• 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
• In parts of the mostly Christian South, vigilante groups have vowed to take revenge for Christian deaths on local Muslims.
  — John Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2012
• Videos circulated on social media of armed Druse men threatening to take revenge against Palestinians.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• Crowds surged into the streets to celebrate the fall of Saddam Hussein, to destroy his regime’s most potent symbols, and to take revenge on those who had sustained his rule.
  — Nicholas Krohley, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2015
• 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
• Dorotea, Lila’s grandmother, seizes the opportunity to take revenge against Valya, who killed her and prevented her from destroying the Sisterhood’s genetic database.
  — Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• The story of Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to take revenge on the white whale who bit off his leg is an American classic and has been read in countless classrooms since its publication in 1851.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
• 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