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nemesis
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nemesis as in:  she is my nemesis

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She finally defeated her nemesis in the finals her senior year.
nemesis = an opponent who has long been hard to defeat
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    Yes, I am afraid your old nemesis is here.  (source)
    nemesis = formidable and long-standing opponent
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    Rostam mortally wounds his valiant nemesis, Sohrab, in battle, only to discover that Sohrab is his long-lost son.  (source)
    nemesis = enemy
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    As he watched their nemesis twitch, he was almost ashamed for feeling no guilt.  (source)
    nemesis = formidable and long-standing opponent
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    Is she the nemesis of my digestive tract?  (source)
    nemesis = enemy
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    We tried to pretend the other didn't exist even though the existence of our nemeses kept us both occupied for hours.  (source)
    nemeses = formidable and long-standing enemies
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    He didn't care about anything except confronting his whiskered nemesis.  (source)
    nemesis = formidable and long-standing enemy
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    "That man will be our Nemesis," Baby Kochamma said.  (source)
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    In the next round of the playoffs we faced our nemesis, St. Augustine, again.  (source)
    nemesis = formidable and long-standing opponent
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    A steady rain was falling, and the porch steps, his nemesis, loomed slick and wet before him.  (source)
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    Van Helsing, the count's ultimate nemesis, and his lot, then, are really protecting young people, and especially young women, from this menace when they hunt him down.  (source)
    nemesis = formidable and long-standing enemy
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    How strange it was that her sister, who had always been her opposite, her nemesis, should be the one she wanted here, but it was so.  (source)
    nemesis = formidable and long-standing opponent
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    Every superhero had an arch-nemesis.  (source)
    nemesis = an enemy
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    "Don't you have anything better to do, Phillip?" he says as his light-footed nemesis, clearly on a roll, frowns like he's in pain.  (source)
    nemesis = formidable enemy
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Nemesis as in:  the goddess

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Or maybe even one of the minor gods, like Nemesis, the god of revenge.  (source)
Nemesis = Greek mythology:  the goddess of divine vengeance and punishment
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    Deo was behaving like one of those arrogant ancient Greek heroes who, victorious in a battle, succumbs to hubris, claims he's mastered fate, doesn't fear Ata's retaliation, and for his stupid boast gets visited by Nemesis.  (source)
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    For it is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue.  (source)
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    I'm the child of Nemesis, Goddess of Revenge.  (source)
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    He was starting to think Nemesis was right.  (source)
    Nemesis = Greek mythology:  the goddess of divine vengeance and punishment -- especially against those with excessive pride
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    Hecate, Janus, and Nemesis, as well.  (source)
    Nemesis = Greek mythology:  the goddess of divine vengeance and punishment
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    He wondered if Nemesis was around here somewhere, watching to see what Leo would do.  (source)
    Nemesis = Greek mythology:  the goddess of divine vengeance and punishment -- especially against those with excessive pride
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    ...he thought about the warning from Nemesis, the revenge goddess: You will not find a place among your brethren.  (source)
    Nemesis = Greek mythology:  the goddess of divine vengeance and punishment
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    He remembered how the goddess Nemesis had appeared as his Aunt Rosa, the person Leo most resented and wanted revenge on.  (source)
    Nemesis = Greek mythology:  the goddess of divine vengeance and punishment -- especially against those with excessive pride
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    Not that I would here insinuate that he was heathenishly inclined to believe in or to worship the goddess Nemesis; for, in fact, I am convinced he never heard of her name.  (source)
    Nemesis = Greek mythology:  the goddess of divine vengeance and punishment
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    It was Nemesis who condemned the vain Narcissus to spend the rest of his days admiring his own reflection in the waters of a pool.†
    Nemesis = Greek mythology:  the goddess of divine vengeance and punishment -- especially against those with excessive pride
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