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wreak

verb as in force, cause

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“It would wreak havoc on the financial markets as global markets and investors begin to wonder if we can govern ourselves,” he said.

The charges concern accusations that Kabila has been supporting the M23, a rebel group who have wreaked devastation across the country's eastern region.

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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.

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

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