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rampage

[ram-peyj, ram-peyj, ram-peyj] / ˈræm peɪdʒ, ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræm peɪdʒ /


VERB
go crazy; storm
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
be calm


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The police spokeswoman added the force believe the incident to be a "rampage".

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

Bridges is another key to New York’s playoff rampage, a stopper on defense who’s suddenly reborn offensively.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

The rampage stunned Germany and provoked a heated nationwide debate about security around Christmas markets, a beloved seasonal German tradition.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

You would have an executive that was just on a rampage, with no one willing to stand up.

From Slate Mar. 4, 2026

In those few moments that she went on a rampage, my dread for school increased a thousandfold, and I swore that, despite the pledge I had made to my mother, I would never come back.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

The narrative backdrop is that after 32 years of who-coulda-thunk-it rampages, humankind is tired of dealing with the darned things.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2025

Eggs: So, that whole thing about the U.S. trying to import more eggs as bird flu rampages across American livestock centers?

From Slate Mar. 5, 2025

When the monster arrives, its rampages across Tokyo evoke the Allied fire bombings of the war, including the 1945 nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From Scientific American Nov. 3, 2023

Asked if Netanyahu agreed with the security chiefs' designation of the rampages as "terrorism", his office referred Reuters to that statement and declined further comment.

From Reuters Jun. 25, 2023

These post-bath rampages lasted only about ten minutes, and the Vanderbeekers knew to steer clear until Franz exhausted himself.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

Since then, Nigeria has allowed hundreds of American troops to be posted to the country to train Nigerian forces and coordinate targeting of militant groups that have rampaged through the Lake Chad Basin for years.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

For 40 minutes, he rampaged in a manner that would have been signed off by great Welsh number eights such as Mervyn Davies, Scott Quinnell and Taulupe Faletau.

From BBC Feb. 4, 2024

By Sunday, Palworld was one of the most popular games on the planet as players rampaged through a cruel world of chickens and squirrels engaged in shootouts.

From New York Times Jan. 23, 2024

By the first winter wave of the pandemic, COVID-19 rampaged through swaths of California, sending patients to the hospital in droves, overwhelming Los Angeles’ morgues with bodies and prompting officials to issue new stay-at-home orders.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 27, 2023

Instead, when the fever rampaged through Philadelphia in summers to come, vast tent encampments were erected for the poor by the Schuylkill River and in the Northern Liberties.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Their colloquy is interrupted when a rampaging animal is heard.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The animals were seen entering homes, roaming near schools and rampaging through supermarkets and hot spring resorts on an almost daily basis.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Along with such franchise tropes as face-huggers and rampaging xenomorphs, ship design was the key area where homage overtook the series’ emphasis on new locations, lifeforms and themes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

“Viewed positively, what the American revolution did was to give the common man a voice, a veto, elbow room and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of his ‘betters.’

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

That there were throngs of rampaging actor pirates pursuing their carriage was thoroughly absurd, yet it seemed thoroughly dangerous, too.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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