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That said, one hacker can wreak no small amount of havoc, as one compromised water system might serve tens of thousands of people.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Key details: The Amazon Prime sale played havoc with the government’s effort to account for seasonal swings in when Americans spent their money.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

A super El Niño could wreak havoc on commercial fishing off the California coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

A drought is wreaking havoc along Europe’s rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

My eyes kept returning to a blue kite that had been wreaking havoc for the last hour.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

My inbox seemed like a library havocked by a tornado, with torn pages scattered helter-skelter across the room.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2015

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

It havocked on his firm inflexible mind, as it would on a weak and pliant brain! 

From Nature and Art by Henry Morley

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

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

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