run amok

Example Sentences

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She’s an aesthete run amok, determined to deface anything that doesn’t live up to her impossible standards.

From Los Angeles Times

The tone of “Run Amok” is tricky and unusual, at once lighthearted and serious.

From Los Angeles Times

Now, the rest of them are rejecting the nice guy while Rapaport continues to run amok.

From Salon

Mr. Foster offers an entertaining and informative tour of the four groups while subjecting them all to the same criticism: They focus too much on the grandiose, fixating on flying cars, artificial intelligence run amok, global veganism and apocalyptic cyberterrorism.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Beijing also can’t afford to let AI run amok.

From The Wall Street Journal