havoc
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"He wreaks havoc on the street, and his relationship with Gary is severely put to the test," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Another risk comes from the wind itself—strong gusts can play havoc with blades being moved by cranes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The storm also wreaked havoc on telegraph networks around the world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
It was one of several fires to wreak havoc in the region this week, where powerful downslope Santa Ana winds met with warm temperatures and dried vegetation that was primed to burn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
He only knew that demons hate all living things, and sometimes escape from the Otherworld, rising out of the ground to cause sickness and havoc.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
My inbox seemed like a library havocked by a tornado, with torn pages scattered helter-skelter across the room.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2015
It havocked on his firm inflexible mind, as it would on a weak and pliant brain!
From Nature and Art by Henry Morley
Oozed from the bracken's desolate track, By dark rains havocked and drenched black.
From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
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
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
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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