amok
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That episode, "Spock Amok," is an instructive prerequisite to the actions Spock undertakes in the second season premiere of "Strange New Worlds," "The Broken Circle."
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2023
“Andreas Lubitz, 27, The Amok Pilot,” screamed the headline.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2015
Stanley Donwood, primary artist for anything Thom Yorke-related, warped Atoms for Peace’s dystopian “Lost Angeles” from Amok into a wallpaper fit for XL Recording’s main office in support of its February release.
From Time • Nov. 29, 2013
The nine-song "Amok" has an experimental groove, not much different from what you would expect from a Radiohead album, albeit one with a tad more funk thanks to Flea's sometimes adventurous bass lines.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2013
One morning, as we were sitting at breakfast, Mr. Carter's servant informed us that there was an "Amok" in the village—in other words, that a man was "running a muck."
From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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