run wild
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He added that he voted for Mayor Karen Bass, but “almost everything Pratt said about the homeless resonated with me. … The homeless run wild here, without consequence.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
The fortified vault in Kentucky is closed to the public, allowing imaginations to run wild with conspiracies and myths: that the gold is gone or fake, or the vault contains alien objects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
By contrast, when Franglen composed the music for the Wind Traders - a nomadic clan of salesmen, who travel by airship - he could let his imagination run wild.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
Speculation has already begun to run wild on social media, but we still know very little about the situation.
From Slate • Jul. 13, 2024
As for the dogs, they could chase penguins and run wild without going too far—on all sides was the frigid sea, where killer whales cruised in search of a meal.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
