run wild

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He added that he voted for Mayor Karen Bass, but “almost everything Pratt said about the homeless resonated with me. … The homeless run wild here, without consequence.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The fortified vault in Kentucky is closed to the public, allowing imaginations to run wild with conspiracies and myths: that the gold is gone or fake, or the vault contains alien objects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

During the design phase, you have to let your imagination run wild, says Mr Sinclair-Harris.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

Speculation has already begun to run wild on social media, but we still know very little about the situation.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2024

I’m tellin’ you they let the kids run wild up there.

From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose