amuck
Example Sentences
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In “The Simpsons,” corruption runs amuck at FIFA, ultimately ending in the arrest of the vice president of world soccer’s governing body.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024
We don’t know where the Dothraki went, or why they similarly didn’t run amuck.
From The Verge • May 20, 2019
There’s nothing strange about absolute power run amuck.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2018
As this Guardian timeline of statements made by Murdoch executives over the past four-and-a-half years reveals, the company had ample notice that "wrongdoers" were running amuck inside its newsroom as well as the executive suite.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2011
They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
