rampage
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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
This galling notion sets her on a rampage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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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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
American audiences of the ‘60s, ’70s and ‘80s were amply exposed to other Japanese entertainment, mainly giant monster rampages epitomized by the 1954 movie “Godzilla” and its resulting sequels.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 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
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
Murley lost his bearings under a high ball and Bundee Aki rampaged over from the resulting pressure to level things.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025
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
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
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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
He cuts a calm individual in interviews, but morphs into a rampaging figure on the training pitches, even physically moving his coaches to demonstrate the intensity he is after.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
And there he was like a freight train on the loose, out of control, rampaging wildly, trying to careen toward Guilmet but too late, too late.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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