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Who would suspect a frumpy matron in a humble sweater could wreak such unhinged havoc?

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

The local leader pointed to warnings that El Nino's effects will worsen into the winter and are expected to wreak more havoc along California's coast.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The disruptions it could wreak on everything from air travel to farming preview what a normal year may look like decades from now if carbon emissions continue unabated.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

“When the water level is extra high, a foot or more higher than we expect it to be, then it can really wreak havoc.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

That night, the two elder boys crouched in a bush near the furthest field, waiting to see if anything would come back to wreak havoc.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

This year's Pacific hurricane season is shaping up as more severe than usual, as a Super El Nino wreaks devastation across Central America, bringing historic droughts and flooding.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

They won us over with their mild pomposity and aloofness, whereas Rapaport’s annoyance wreaks collateral damage like a chronically unbathed person’s odor assails bystanders.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Participants say the air is thinner and the plunge downhill wreaks havoc on your body.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2025

Their exposure often wreaks personal and professional harm on their students, whose associations with a now-tainted mentor can jeopardize their academic careers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

The Gallic spirit cannot understand that spirit of malevolent destruction which vengefully wreaks its spite against defenseless and inanimate works of age to be reverenced, of art to be loved.

From The World Decision by Robert Herrick

The deer have wreaked havoc on native species as they eat fire-resilient chaparral and other native plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The shock has wreaked havoc with Florida-based Mosaic, the dominant publicly listed phosphate producer.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Windy conditions on Court Philippe Chatrier wreaked havoc with Sabalenka's powerful hitting and the Belarusian committed 57 unforced errors.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Pelley said "incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc".

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

The big rat laughed insanely and ran faster: on and on, past scenes of desolation and destruction wreaked by him, Cluny the Scourge.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

That’s not to say all is flopping now for Zaslav and team: “Wuthering Heights” and Evil Dead Burn did pretty well, and the upcoming Dune: Part Three is already wreaking box-office havoc.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

A drought is wreaking havoc along Europe’s rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Fraser Sutherland, the group's coalition manager, said: "Climate change is already affecting people's health and well-being, livelihoods and financial stability in Scotland, with more frequent storms, floods, droughts and wildfires wreaking havoc across the country."

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Yerson Granados used to fish off Colombia's Caribbean coast for a living, but when he discovered the havoc he was wreaking on coral reefs, he changed his ways.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

My eyes kept returning to a blue kite that had been wreaking havoc for the last hour.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini