rampage
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Black bears are on a rampage across America, riding a population rebound driven in part by greater protection of the species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The police spokeswoman added the force believe the incident to be a "rampage".
From BBC ● Jul. 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
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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
Yamazaki refers to Toho Studios’ original method of filming Godzilla rampages in 1954.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
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
Responding to an opposition question in parliament, Gallant condemned the rampages as "a dangerous social phenomenon that we must fight."
From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2023
One afternoon, I was on one of these getaway rampages, racing down the small side roads that spiderweb our property.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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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
A Pacific Palisades home that narrowly survived the fire that rampaged through the community was heavily damaged by a landslide this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
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
He rampaged up and down the dock, shaking his finger at the boys as they sat in their shell.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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Herds of rampaging wildebeest have looked less awe-inspiring as these fans have for weeks.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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
It was one of several fires rampaging through Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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
I don’t know much about hunting, but I’m pretty sure that being cautious or thorough matters a lot more than just rampaging in because you want to catch something.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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