havoc

The contrast between real-world havoc and relative price serenity is starkest in the wheat market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

So many people I've spoken to in France since Saturday's riots emphasise the importance in making a clear distinction between angry but peaceful protestors, and those intent on wreaking violent havoc.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The storm also wreaked havoc on telegraph networks around the world.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Who would suspect a frumpy matron in a humble sweater could wreak such unhinged havoc?

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

He was preparing his speech for the next day, flipping through a havoc of handwritten pages, making notes here and there with a pencil.

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

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

Oozed from the bracken's desolate track, By dark rains havocked and drenched black.

From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh

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