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  • When the store reopened after the storm, shoppers ran amok, grabbing groceries off the shelves.
    amok = wildly out of control
  • For four long years you two have been running amok in this school, and I've never been able to prove anything—until now!  (source)
    amok = out of control
  • Or is it more an example of vanity run amok?†  (source)
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  • I saw him run amok twice, breaking things, reaching for knives.†  (source)
  • They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.†  (source)
  • Then, with only a snarl for notice, the hyena went amok.†  (source)
  • The unhinged fling of an arm, the right arm whippy and haywire, like a part that runs amuck in a machine, and the whole body spasm, an arrhythmic thing, a thing outside the limits of experience.†  (source)
  • I feel as if I were in the United Nations and the translators had run amok.†  (source)
  • What preposterous madness to float in thin air two miles high on an inch or two of metal, sustained from death by the meager skill and intelligence of two vapid strangers, a beardless kid named Huple and a nervous nut like Dobbs, who really did go nuts right there in the plane, running amuck over the target without leaving his copilot's seat and grabbing the controls from Huple to plunge them all down into that chilling dive that tore Yossarian's headset loose and brought them right back inside the dense flak from which they had almost escaped.†  (source)
  • Lourdes blames Enrique's grandmother Maraa: she spoiled the boy and let him run amok.†  (source)
  • I could see no option three, so I hoped it was the second option and this was just my subconscious running amuck, rather than something I would need to be hospitalized for.†  (source)
  • "Hermione, a wizard in Mr. Crouch's position can't afford a house-elf who's going to run amok with a wand!" said Percy pompously, recovering himself.†  (source)
  • These were the people of the colored forest gone amuck.†  (source)
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