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Revanchism N Policy Seeking Vengeance Regard Lost Territory

Word revanchism
Definition n. A policy of seeking vengeance, especially with regard to lost territory.
Sentence The [Republican] Party has become its own worst enemy, in the coronavirus era revealing the bullying, revanchist core beneath a friendly façade.
Source National Review, Nov. 2020, “China's Useful Idiots”

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