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The attacks are also wreaking havoc on global air travel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

While often cast as a rainmaker in Southern California, El Niño can also wreak havoc on the coastline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Drawn towards the blazing stadium floodlights, Bogong swarms caused havoc at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"It has created havoc for many people like me who escaped the situation in Tigray," he told the BBC's Tigrinya service.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

CFCs also hang around for a long time–about a century on average–wreaking havoc all the while.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

My inbox seemed like a library havocked by a tornado, with torn pages scattered helter-skelter across the room.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2015

And then the gal o' Ginral Brinkle's, if I could pin her, would be a clear fifty more, provided I could catch her without damage, and twenty-five if the dogs havocked her shins.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Many a shepherd at that time patrolled all night through with his dogs, only to find in the morning that the Killer had slipped him and havocked in some secluded portion of his beat.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

It havocked on his firm inflexible mind, as it would on a weak and pliant brain! 

From Nature and Art by Henry Morley

Oozed from the bracken's desolate track, By dark rains havocked and drenched black.

From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh

Down the broad, deserted avenue, with its dark, imposing mansions, she hurried as if she were alone in the havocking elements.

From Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf

Naturally Chantry did not want his friends' boots havocking upon it.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien