as in revenges
the act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury
police believe that the murder was in retaliation for an earlier gangland execution
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Recent Examples of retaliations
Neither country can afford to return to the prior tariff rates during the heat of tit-for-tat retaliations, which freaked out Big Tech earlier this year.
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Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retaliations
reprisals
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From recruit to recruiter The easy money kept coming for the young woman, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals but spoke with CNN by phone.—
Avery Schmitz,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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The two people spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Retaliations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retaliations. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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