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- verb Present participle of
retaliate .
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Examples
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So their costs in retaliating are necessarily much larger than their benefits.
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September 25th, 2009 10: 36 pm ET maybe someone retaliating from the 2 foiled terror bombings?
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Iran would thus be justified in retaliating against that or those countries as well as israel.
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Polity security agent Jebel Krong is one of the few survivors of that first, fateful meeting and takes a decidedly intense interest in retaliating against the predators who come to be nicknamed the Prador based on their predatory nature.
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Lets see if we are still as macho and hard, once all Iranians, Muslims, Asians, Lat-Americans and other minorities begin retaliating against us! remember, the retaliation of the indignant will not take place over two days or two weeks, RETALLIATION WILL CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST A GENERATION!
Think Progress » Brzezinski: Air Strike on Iran Could ‘Merit the Impeachment of the President’ 2006
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Kariya hard, with the Duck captain retaliating with a slash that resulted in his ejection.
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What a great bit – Shatner reading from Palin’s “Going Rogue,” and Palin retaliating with bits from Shatner’s “Up Till Now.”
Sarah Palin Divorce Rumors Untrue; Palin Divorce Gossip (Video) 2009
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Is this something that is likely to be the United States retaliating, which is what I think immediately comes to people's minds?
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Spontaneous protest meetings occurred all across Montgomery, and the idea of retaliating against the entire system by conducting a bus boycott took hold.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs
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The men who stood around, were intensely angry with the prisoners, for their plot to arrest and whip them, but the idea of retaliating in kind, by whipping the prisoners themselves, had not for an instant occurred to the boldest.
The Duke of Stockbridge Edward Bellamy 1874
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