Thesaurus / amok
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synonyms for amok
- desperately
- excitedly
- madly
- uncontrollably
- wildly
- agitatedly
- berserk
- crazily
- franticly
- hectically
- helter-skelter
- hysterically
- wild
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How to use amok in a sentence
Many of the lawmakers I spoke to were reluctant to propose sweeping legislation that could run amok of civil liberties.
THE TRAILER: HOW DEMOCRATS PLAN TO FIGHT DOMESTIC TERRORDAVID WEIGELJANUARY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt’s not that they don’t fear AI running amok—it’s that they see it already happening, just not in the ways most people would expect.
THE TRUE DANGERS OF AI ARE CLOSER THAN WE THINKKATIE MCLEANOCTOBER 21, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWMoreover, they do almost nothing to address the very real privacy and security risks of corporate data exploitation run amok.
APP BANS WON’T MAKE US SECURITY RISKS DISAPPEARAMY NORDRUMSEPTEMBER 21, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWGreenhouse gases have run amok and made it totally inhospitable—perhaps an extreme version of what Earth could look like in the very distant future.
THE 5 BEST PLACES TO EXPLORE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM—BESIDES MARSNEEL PATELAUGUST 17, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe story was framed as an instance of lawless youth run amok – an almost unprovoked riot.
HOW THE NEW YORK MEDIA COVERED THE STONEWALL RIOTSLGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 23, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSBriggs was taking no chances with another of the yellow dogs running amok.
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLANDA boy came up to us in great excitement to say that the prisoner had got hold of a bayonet and was running amok.
THE HEAD HUNTERS OF NORTHERN LUZON FROM IFUGAO TO KALINGACORNELIS DE WITT WILLCOXSo he takes his knife an' runs amok to stab so many people as he can, an' he don't care a dam' if only he makes a big smash.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELLI saw one instance where a henpecked husband "ran amok" and killed or wounded seventeen people before he himself was killed.
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT - VOLUME 12ELBERT HUBBARDAll was confusion, all a kind of wild and orgiastic dream, culmination of heredity, of a spirit run amok.
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLANDWORDS RELATED TO AMOK
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