wreak
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned Friday that "anyone who sets out to wreak havoc on our streets, to intimidate or threaten anyone... can expect to face the full force of the law".
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
Will she use this financial arrangement to wreak more havoc on your personal and financial lives?
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
Overall, the declining birth rate “continues to wreak havoc with the fragile vitality of public schools,” Fuller added.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Conspicuous consumption isn’t enough in the Silicon Valley bubble where he tends to wreak havoc.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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
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