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wreak

verb as in force, cause

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He will also talk about rebuilding, in a nod to Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee's postwar government's programme of new towns, which fixed the devastation wreaked by bombs as well as poverty.

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It is now approaching three decades since the pair wreaked havoc for Newcastle against the mighty Barcelona.

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One needs a scorecard to track the devastation wreaked on scientific efforts by the current administration.

The new home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has said the small boat crossings are "utterly unacceptable" and that "vile people smugglers behind them are wreaking havoc on our borders".

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The new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said in a statement on Sunday that the small boat crossings were "utterly unacceptable and the vile people smugglers behind them are wreaking havoc on our borders".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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