havoc
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Key details: The Amazon Prime sale played havoc with the government’s effort to account for seasonal swings in when Americans spent their money.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
They believe AI is too dangerous and releasing the underlying code would wreak havoc, and that AI models must instead be developed and released in a controlled fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
A drought is wreaking havoc along Europe’s rivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"Many deaths feared after strong earthquake wreaks havoc in southern Japan" says the paper in a separate headline, next to a birds-eye shot of a partially fallen bridge.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Still, Penelope convinced herself that the havoc trended in one direction slightly more so than in the other.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
My inbox seemed like a library havocked by a tornado, with torn pages scattered helter-skelter across the room.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2015
Oozed from the bracken's desolate track, By dark rains havocked and drenched black.
From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
And then the gal o' Ginral Brinkle's, if I could pin her, would be a clear fifty more, provided I could catch her without damage, and twenty-five if the dogs havocked her shins.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Many a shepherd at that time patrolled all night through with his dogs, only to find in the morning that the Killer had slipped him and havocked in some secluded portion of his beat.
From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
It havocked on his firm inflexible mind, as it would on a weak and pliant brain!
From Nature and Art by Henry Morley
Down the broad, deserted avenue, with its dark, imposing mansions, she hurried as if she were alone in the havocking elements.
From Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf
Naturally Chantry did not want his friends' boots havocking upon it.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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