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wreak

verb as in force, cause

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A senior Ukrainian official told AFP the city's air defences worked particularly well to stop the attack from wreaking even more damage.

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Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy made clear that he intended to wreak extensive disruption at FDA.

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Since September, jihadists affiliated with Al-Qaeda have imposed a fuel blockade on Mali and a total blockade on several towns, wreaking havoc on the west African nation.

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AI is already wreaking havoc on the white-collar workforce, with chief executives increasingly admitting that the technology will wipe out jobs.

A supermoon — the closest such moon to the Earth this year — is wreaking havoc with ocean tides up and down the state’s coast just as an atmospheric river storm moved through Northern California.

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

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