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In “The Simpsons,” corruption runs amuck at FIFA, ultimately ending in the arrest of the vice president of world soccer’s governing body.

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I hate to break it to these "devoted" religious followers: The Bible says absolutely nothing about allowing people to run amuck with guns.

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“We all felt that the cowardly assassin had run amuck and might be lurking in the thick forest waiting a chance to get another victim,” Cherrie wrote.

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“Jordan epitomized pragmatism run amuck,” White writes, in a major understatement.

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Giuliani went to the Mark Hotel for what he believed to be a hard-hitting interview centered on Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic when a scantily-clad Baron Cohen had run amuck.

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