as in to retaliate
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The movie ends as the president is forced to choose between letting the missile just hit Chicago to avoid starting a war or retaliating.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025 -
The crew allegedly used violence to enforce its territory including shootings, murder and assaults and retaliated against witnesses who cooperated with law enforcement.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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So, for me, that was the creation of the Anti-American Speech Committee, which is a government panel essentially designed to prosecute artists for holding views or creating work that resists basically the fascist state that has overtaken the American government.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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He was almost prosecuted for counterfeiting.—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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Alongside Tomer-Yerushalmi, other senior legal officials in the military prosecutor’s office are also implicated in the leak and its alleged cover-up.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Cheney was not implicated in the case legally, but he was tainted by the scandal nonetheless.—
Don Gonyea,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
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But in terms of its deeds, the government has been very much trying to push Hungarian literature in an opposite direction.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Other apparent daycare employees could be seen trying to get to her after she was placed in the ICE vehicle, with one holding a small child.—
Bonny Chu , Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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As Semafor previously reported, many inside the magazine were excited by Guiducci’s arrival, believing the old Vanity Fair was moving too slowly, had fallen too far outside the zeitgeist, and had lost some of its sheen.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Tabor said the Detention Center still sees detainees who test positive for covid-19, though not in the large numbers that were reported during the height of the pandemic in 2021.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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Over the years, Pearcy has given numerous different accounts of the crime — at times blaming Dailey and other times inculpating himself.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
13 Feb. 2012
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The issue has been heightened this month, after Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lauri Damrell shut down tribes’ attempt to sue card rooms for being in violation of state law.—
Kate Wolffe
October 23,
Sacbee.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Government Accountability Office can sue the OMB over an impoundment or pocket rescission to get the money released.—
Andy Kroll,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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