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'retaliation' is a correct and commonly used word in written English
Retaliation refers to the act of responding or reacting to an action or statement in a similarly negative or harmful way. It is often used in the context of revenge or retribution. Example: After being relentlessly bullied at school, John finally decided to take matters into his own hands and seek retaliation against his tormentors. He plotted a prank that would embarrass them in front of the whole school.
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Retaliation
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Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
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Fear of retaliation and death threats from radical Islamists have forced some cartoonists into exile, according to the report, Drawing the line: cartoonists under threat.
"Spitting is universally recognised as perhaps the ultimate degradation and it's bound to result in rather aggressive retaliation," mused the consultant psychologist Dr Aric Sigman years later, in some nostalgia-based clip show or other.
Church was the only person who had been detained at the facility who agreed to talk with the Guardian: their lawyers say others fear police retaliation.
Not only must we be able to choose with whom we discuss politics, we must also be able to protect ourselves against retaliation for our expressions of political ideas.
"We've seen in the past, over and over again, how there's been a lot of retaliation by the LRA, the burning of villages, maiming people, a lot of killings, with little military success".
A crack team of old-school yellow journalists should be deployed to dig up everything knowable about the owners, editors and political correspondents of the newspapers, along with the Tory frontbench, to be kept for retaliation and/or pre-emption.
Ablyatifov fled to Lviv because he was afraid of retaliation for his active support of the Euromaidan protests in Kiev after security services followed him and tried to arrest him, he said.
"Warner may just be the one who gets pinned by someone in retaliation.
The campaigners, who include many current Walmart workers as well as former employees and members of the alliance Our Walmart, are demanding wages of at least $25,000, more full-time openings and an end to retaliation against workers who speak out about their conditions.
The trade union movement threatened retaliation against the government, but Thatcher met the threat by ignoring them and by tightening the screws.
But I suspect it was simply an insult, perhaps in retaliation for Miliband's mild earlier gibe at Paxman's importance.
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