amok

Example Sentences

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The Arabic-language service appears to have run entirely amok.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

But concerns about a possible AI bubble are running amok, as stretched valuations within the technology sector draw an increasing amount of scrutiny.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

Their defending has been such an abomination that Celtic, with no dependable striker but with a point to prove, could potentially run amok.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

But that would shortchange “Severance,” which takes another run at a corporate world run amok, detailing it in ways that are far more unsettling than anything in the latest season of “Squid Game.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

Their carts bang into mine, their children run amok.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich