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nemesis as in:  she is my nemesis

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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
  • Yes, I am afraid your old nemesis is here.   (source)
    nemesis = formidable and long-standing opponent
  • Every superhero had an arch-nemesis.   (source)
    nemesis = an enemy
  • He didn't care about anything except confronting his whiskered nemesis.   (source)
    nemesis = formidable and long-standing enemy
  • We tried to pretend the other didn't exist even though the existence of our nemeses kept us both occupied for hours.†   (source)
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Nemesis as in:  the goddess

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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
  • He was starting to think Nemesis was right.   (source)
  • He remembered how the goddess Nemesis had appeared as his Aunt Rosa, the person Leo most resented and wanted revenge on.   (source)
  • 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.
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  • Is she the nemesis of my digestive tract?†   (source)
  • Or maybe even one of the minor gods, like Nemesis, the god of revenge.†   (source)
  • With a strange sort of detachment, Williams saw himself as Danny Hansford's savior rather than his nemesis, much less his murderer: "I was determined to save him from himself," he said.†   (source)
  • As he watched their nemesis twitch, he was almost ashamed for feeling no guilt.†   (source)
  • Without saying a word, the nemesis of the Baudelaire orphans had sent a very clear warning.†   (source)
  • At which point her arch nemesis, the sole atheist in Camp Ashpit's foxhole, a college professor named Dawkins, shouted out, "Particularly those of extraterrestrial origin!"†   (source)
  • Yours truly, Your Friendly Neighborhood Nemesis†   (source)
  • IT WAS TIME FOR ULYSSES TO RESCUE HIS ARCH-NEMESIS!†   (source)
  • There sat my tweed-cap nemesis Mr. Beeman, pompous as ever with his waistcoat and watch chain; Enrique my social worker; Mrs. Swanson the school counselor (the same person who had told me I might feel better if I threw some ice cubes against a tree); Dave the psychiatrist in his customary black Levi's and turtleneck —and, of all people, Mrs. Barbour, in heels and a pearl-gray suit that looked like it cost more money than all the other people in the room made in a month.†   (source)
  • "That man will be our Nemesis," Baby Kochamma said.†   (source)
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  • So while I slept the Hegemony became a formal entity, the Worldweb was spun to something close to its final shape, the All Thing took its democratic place among the list of humanity's benevolent despots, the TechnoCore seceded from human service and then offered its help as an ally rather than a slave, and the Ousters retreated to darkness and the role of Nemesis...but all these things had been creeping toward critical mass even before I was frozen into my ice coffin between the pork bellies and sherbet, and such obvious extensions of old trends took little effort to understand.†   (source)
  • A steady rain was falling, and the porch steps, his nemesis, loomed slick and wet before him.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • In the next round of the playoffs we faced our nemesis, St. Augustine, again.†   (source)
  • The murderer could have died years ago, while our nemesis just wants us to drop the whole thing and go home.†   (source)
  • Hope that you don't run into your nemesis, Howie, the Puerto Rican kid with the two killer mutts.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Sathyamurthy, the father of her old childhood nemesis, Velu, peered over the fence as workmen carried in a Western-style commode to be cemented over the footpads of the Indian toilet.†   (source)
  • The president then places the blame squarely on his nemesis.†   (source)
  • If you'll curtail your literary pursuits a moment I'll introduce you to my counterpart and Nemesis; I would be trite and say, 'to my better half,' but I think that phrase indicates some kind of basically equal division, don't you?†   (source)
  • He's her pride, her heir, and, in some ways, her nemesis.†   (source)
  • Competitively, Adam was my nemesis.†   (source)
  • This, same thrill evaporated, however, when the letters joined to spell out a snooper's ultimate nemesis.†   (source)
  • Her nemesis could be any of them.†   (source)
  • Intuition warned him that he was drawing close to some immense and inscrutable cosmic climax, and his broad, meaty, towering frame tingled from head to toe at the thought that Yossarian, whoever he would eventually turn out to be, was destined to serve as his nemesis.†   (source)
  • Aaron Burr, a New York Republican and Hamilton's nemesis, was in the running for Vice President and so Hamilton was happy now to laud Adams as "a real friend to genuine liberty, order and stable government.†   (source)
  • I'm focused on my goal—the beacon that is the double-door entrance to the English wing—on the opposite side of my brick-lined square nemesis.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • His nemesis stared from bulging eyes that peered from a skull bleeding on one side.†   (source)
  • He's my nemesis.†   (source)
  • The black box was his nemesis.†   (source)
  • Inside his tower of strength he was confident that he could handle even a nemesis as mighty as Errtu.†   (source)
  • Rail trips became his nemesis.†   (source)
  • When I was certain that the cold was my most formidable enemy, I was challenged one morning by a prowling, spectral nemesis that crept along the lowcountry as silent as an egret's flight—the fog.†   (source)
  • I was Athena's nemesis, the anti-Athena, you might say.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to be Nemesis to understand the allure of revenge.†   (source)
  • I'm the child of Nemesis, Goddess of Revenge.†   (source)
  • I knew him, of course: Ethan Nakamura, the son of Nemesis.†   (source)
  • "He's Incandesto's arch-nemesis," said Flora.†   (source)
  • You will always be the outsider, Nemesis had told him, the seventh wheel.†   (source)
  • Damien White, son of Nemesis, lived up to his namesake by wreaking vengeance on an acoustic guitar.†   (source)
  • So do I. Best wishes, Your Friendly Neighborhood Nemesis†   (source)
  • Next to that were the cabins of Iris, Nemesis, Hecate, and several others I didn't recognize.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately that just reminded him of Nemesis's fortune cookie, tucked inside one of the pockets.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Damien White ...a son of Nemesis was a natural choice for backstabbing duty.†   (source)
  • Incandesto was forever being attacked by his arch-nemesis, the Darkness of 10,000 Hands.†   (source)
  • Chiara, the cute girl from Tyche, was stuck with her nemesis, Damien White, son of ...well, Nemesis.†   (source)
  • "There is no throne to Nemesis," Ethan muttered.†   (source)
  • What if Ulysses's arch-nemesis was William Spiver?†   (source)
  • Nemesis wanted him to wreak vengeance on Gaea?†   (source)
  • He wore an eye patch under his war helm: Ethan Nakamura, the son of Nemesis.†   (source)
  • You can't take what Nemesis said to heart.†   (source)
  • What would he be doing in the kitchen with a known arch-nemesis?†   (source)
  • "Do you know what an arch-nemesis is?" she whispered.†   (source)
  • Are you the cursed kid Nemesis mentioned?†   (source)
  • And the arch-nemesis, thought Flora, the arch-nemesis will be forever among us, too.†   (source)
  • You will always be the outsider, warned Nemesis's voice; but Leo tried to push that thought aside.†   (source)
  • Ulysses's arch-nemesis is in that house right now "Do you remember the Darkness of 10,000 Hands?"†   (source)
  • Nemesis popped a cookie in her mouth and swallowed it, fortune and all.†   (source)
  • Nemesis cracked another cookie and wrinkled her nose.†   (source)
  • They would figure out a way to outwit the arch-nemesis!†   (source)
  • But William Spiver was sitting beside Ulysses's arch-nemesis.†   (source)
  • "Five more days, according to Nemesis," Annabeth said.†   (source)
  • And you"— she wheeled and pointed at her mother—"are an arch-nemesis, a true villain."†   (source)
  • I wonder what Nemesis meant about finishing before dark.†   (source)
  • Nemesis ...she'd told him to expect this moment.†   (source)
  • I am called Nemesis in both Greek and Roman.†   (source)
  • After what Nemesis told Leo, about Rome's being destroyed five days from now ...†   (source)
  • If Nemesis is right, and Nico's in danger ...I have to help him.†   (source)
  • Nemesis flicked a finger over the slip of paper, and the letters changed to red.†   (source)
  • Nemesis brushed cookie dust off her jacket.†   (source)
  • Nemesis said we have only six days until Nico dies and Rome is destroyed.†   (source)
  • Not after what Nemesis said about the horrible cost.†   (source)
  • She told him what Nemesis had said: that in six days, Rome would be destroyed.†   (source)
  • "Nemesis mentioned something similar," Leo said.†   (source)
  • LEO AGREED WITH NEMESIS ABOUT ONE THING: good luck was a sham.†   (source)
  • Nemesis was the goddess who cursed you, because you broke so many hearts.†   (source)
  • Nemesis's words were still buzzing in his ears.†   (source)
  • Nemesis picked another cookie from her bag and cracked it open.†   (source)
  • Leo remembered his conversation with Nemesis the revenge goddess at the Great Salt Lake.†   (source)
  • He remembered their meeting with the revenge goddess Nemesis.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the Greek/Roman schizophrenia that Nemesis described.†   (source)
  • Nemesis had called him the seventh wheel, the odd man out on the quest.†   (source)
  • Also, Leo kept thinking about his meeting with the revenge goddess Nemesis at the Great Salt Lake.†   (source)
  • Nemesis stands for balance!†   (source)
  • Hecate, Janus, and Nemesis, as well.†   (source)
  • Nemesis smiled wickedly.†   (source)
  • As the Baudelaire orphans stared at Count Olaf, the taxi drove back down the driveway and the children were alone with their nemesis, a word which here means "the worst enemy you could imagine."†   (source)
  • Thomas looked around again to make sure it was safe; then he crouched down, ran over to the table and collapsed on the ground next to his old nemesis.†   (source)
  • If you were an English professor, and not even a particularly weird English professor, you'd know that you'd just watched a knight have a not very suitable encounter with his nemesis.†   (source)
  • Nemesis, Hecate, Morpheus, Janus, Hebe—they all deserve a general amnesty and a place at Camp Half-Blood.†   (source)
  • The son of Nemesis fell through a fissure that went straight through the heart of the mountain—straight into open air.†   (source)
  • But he had been enlisted in the service of villainy—basically, he was in cahoots with an arch-nemesis.†   (source)
  • She was standing at the door, smiling and waving good-bye to them as if she weren't truly a murder-planning arch-nemesis.†   (source)
  • "Beware the arch-nemesis," said Flora.†   (source)
  • She knew how to outwit an arch-nemesis.†   (source)
  • THE ARCH-NEMESIS MUST BE FACED!†   (source)
  • Everything was coming into sharp and terrifying focus; the story was starting to make sense: Ulysses was a superhero (probably), and Phyllis Buckman was his arch-nemesis (definitely).†   (source)
  • We have to face the arch-nemesis.†   (source)
  • "When we were talking to Nemesis," Hazel said uneasily, ((your hands ...I saw flames:' "Yeah," he said.†   (source)
  • As Anion raced toward the Argo II, Leo remembered what Nemesis had said about Echo and Narcissus: Perhaps they'll teach you a lesson.†   (source)
  • Nemesis had mentioned that Narcissus got agitated after dark, probably because he couldn't see his reflection anymore.†   (source)
  • And what Nemesis said about your brother having six days to live, and Rome getting destroyed ...any idea what she meant?†   (source)
  • He could almost hear Nemesis laughing.†   (source)
  • Soon you will face a problem you cannot solve, Nemesis had said, though I could help you ...for a price.†   (source)
  • And of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis, and Dionysus.†   (source)
  • What Nemesis said about your brother?†   (source)
  • That's what Nemesis was telling us.†   (source)
  • Also Nemesis, the revenge goddess.†   (source)
  • Apparently, it was drivable, despite those Pac-Man—shaped wheels, because Nemesis revved her engine and disappeared in a mushroom cloud of black smoke.†   (source)
  • "Nemesis was right," she said.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that's easy," Nemesis said.†   (source)
  • Nemesis opened another cookie.†   (source)
  • Nemesis snapped.†   (source)
  • Nemesis sneered.†   (source)
  • Nemesis chuckled.†   (source)
  • Nemesis was right.†   (source)
  • Nemesis cackled.†   (source)
  • "Nemesis," he said.†   (source)
  • There lies Thomas of Hunter, legend of the Forest Guard, and he's falling in love with you, daughter of his nemesis, Qurong.†   (source)
  • Your father was my nemesis!†   (source)
  • "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)
  • There, more of his teammates provided remembrances, including Austin, who recounted the blade incident, and Christian, who explained how Adam had gone from being his competitive nemesis at BUD/S to a best friend.†   (source)
  • By the time the plague ran its course in Philadelphia, more than 3,000 lost their lives, including, as the Adamses were stunned to read, the mayor of the city and both Bache of the Aurora, who had died on September 10 at age twenty-nine, and his arch nemesis, Fenno of the Gazette of the United States, who died just days before.†   (source)
  • The goddess Nemesis had promised him help, and he'd gotten it: the code to activate the Archimedes sphere.†   (source)
  • At the time, Leo had had no choice but to use it if he wanted to save his friends—but Nemesis had warned that her help came with a price.†   (source)
  • Or it may have been a fear of the whole position, of its instability and the nemesis inherent in it Women know, far better than men, that God's laws are not mocked.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The gutter comedy turned into high tragedy, with Nemesis in black kid gloves.†   (source)
  • The Nemesis of the delicate ones was creeping on apace.†   (source)
  • There is about it none of the elevation that accompanies tragedy; there is about it no nemesis, no destiny.†   (source)
  • A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave.†   (source)
  • And then the crowd surging out but only to wait at the courtroom door in order to glimpse, as he passed out, Mason, who now, of all the figures in this case, was the true hero—the nemesis of Clyde—the avenger of Roberta.†   (source)
  • Duane knew beyond all doubt that the gun-fighters like Bland, like Alloway, like Sellers, men who were evil and had no remorse, no spiritual accusing Nemesis, had something far more torturing to mind, more haunting, more murderous of rest and sleep and peace; and that something was abnormal fear of death.†   (source)
  • "Don't you know that you're lying!" shouted Mason, leaning still closer, his stout arms aloft, his disfigured face glowering and scowling like some avenging nemesis or fury of gargoyle design—"that you deliberately and with cold-hearted cunning allowed that poor, tortured girl to die there when you might have rescued her as easily as you could have swum fifty of those five hundred feet you did swim in order to save yourself?"†   (source)
  • But, if they had known that respectable Nemesis better, they would not have wondered about it, and might have stated the amount with the utmost precision.†   (source)
  • No, certainly; I pity him in proportion to his struggles, for they foreshadow the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis.†   (source)
  • This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis,[120] who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offense go unchastised.†   (source)
  • But there is the terrible Nemesis following on some errors, that it is always possible for those who like it to interpret them into a crime: there is no proof in favor of the man outside his own consciousness and assertion.†   (source)
  • Nemesis can seldom forge a sword for herself out of our consciences—out of the suffering we feel in the suffering we may have caused: there is rarely metal enough there to make an effective weapon.†   (source)
  • Yet, gone those more than forty years, and come this Nemesis now looking her in the face, she still abided by her old impiety—still reversed the order of Creation, and breathed her own breath into a clay image of her Creator.†   (source)
  • The small, piggy eyes cast to and fro, veering wildly in search of nemesis, and the dainty hooves sank deep in mud as the boar staggered and lurched.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • For which reason the antients used, on such occasions, to sacrifice to the goddess Nemesis, a deity who was thought by them to look with an invidious eye on human felicity, and to have a peculiar delight in overturning it.†   (source)
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