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retaliation
[ ri-tal-ee-ey-shuhn ]
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- counter·re·tali·ation noun
- nonre·tali·ation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of retaliation1
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Example Sentences
The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.
And U.S. lawmakers are pushing to involve China in any retaliation against the Sony hack.
Of how incredibly petty the offense can be and how insanely disproportionate the retaliation can be.
If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.
What he fails to realize is that he is imposing the same urban title on his family in retaliation.
The British, on the score of retaliation put to death 221 prisoners, men, women and children.
The measures of retaliation adopted by the colonists were depressing trade at home.
The officers hastened below to wash and change their dress after this very annoying retaliation on the part of Captain Oughton.
The automatic retaliation discs, spinning down all over Russia, hundreds of thousands of them.
It was very true that Those Others might turn on the stranger's fellows in retaliation for his deeds.
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