amok
Example Sentences
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It’s technology gone amok, or maybe it’s…actually the correct call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Gossip about the celebrity guest list has run amok.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The 30-something added that there was "absolutely no sense" in the idea of AGI running amok.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Once considered a canny innovator, and then, with his purchase of the flailing Washington Post, a white knight, he has since become the embodiment of capitalism run amok.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
I feel as if I were in the United Nations and the translators had run amok.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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The Joy Luck Club
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