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rampage

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


VERB
go crazy; storm
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
be calm


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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

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

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

It’s why childhood vaccine rates in some places are plummeting and measles is on the rampage across the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

Bayern continued the rampage early in the second half, with Olise scoring and forcing Wolfsburg's Moritz Jenz into conceding another own goal inside the space of three minutes.

From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 2026

But then I'd apparently broken out of the hospital in a rabid rampage, and every student with a cough or runny nose was now a suspected plague carrier and being rushed to the doctor.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

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

Even his gleaning rampages were not forbidden by anything but custom and tradition.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

"Uniformed, military-trained personnel, carrying semi-automatic firearms and military-grade weaponry, have rampaged for months through Chicago and the surrounding areas," the Illinois lawsuit states.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 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

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

Elagrid was soon yelling, “Don’ panic, now, don’ panic!” while the skrewts rampaged around the pumpkin patch, now strewn with the smoldering wreckage of the boxes.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

In addition to worrying about his ill daughter, Bach mutters and growls about the Prussian troops rampaging through his town.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Adria Arjona stars in Adam Wingard’s flimsy action feature about a woman facing down a group of rampaging, programmable fighters that have escaped from a mad doctor’s lab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

After Wales' scrum buckled early on, an ineffective attacking play involving Thomas resulted in Springboks hooker Malcolm Marx achieving a turnover penalty with rampaging lock Cobus Wiese almost crossing the Welsh line before knocking on.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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

A deafening horn blew, and the entire crowd of people who’d so far done a remarkable imitation of completely normal humans morphed into these rampaging beasts looking for free carnival rides.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon




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