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• Left unchecked for the first time in years, my hormones were now free to run rampant.
  — Sarah Levy, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
• The virus has run rampant in prisons around the country.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• Hoover was slow to see that the Kremlin’s spies had run rampant in the United States since the early 1930s.
  — Tim Weiner, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• It’s run rampant on the internet over the last couple of days.
  — Michael Sykes, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022
• The mind is a terrible thing to waste, and in the horror sci-fi film Black Box, mind games run rampant.
  — EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
• Extreme heat has run rampant across several parts of the world in recent weeks.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• This is much more harmful than protests on ivy league campuses, but this is allowed to run rampant?
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Rumor has it that nepotism has run rampant in the NBA at the ownership/front office level.
  — Essence, 2 July 2024
• Other countries may have given up and allowed the virus to run rampant, but China is made of sterner stuff.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
• In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
• Yet, clear inaction by ICE and its (for-profit) subcontractors has allowed the virus to run rampant.
  — Eli M. Cahan, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2021
• Now, trolling is a fact of life and disinformation and extremism run rampant.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• Schools shut down, stay at home orders were put in place, meaning personal and economic stress and substance abuse would run rampant.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2022
• The Jets have not specified where Rodgers was, prompting speculation to run rampant.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
• The Kia Boyz and other car thieves have run rampant, breaking into and stealing vehicles at ever-increasing rates across the city.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 30 July 2023
• As for the next Black Panther, expectations have run rampant since Boseman’s passing.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Nov. 2022
• Myths and misinformation run rampant on the internet all the time these days, but never more reliably than on April 1.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
• The deserted landscape could create a vacuum in which crime, violence and open drug use run rampant.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• Meanwhile, predictions about how our health and genetics data could be used to divide us, as a species, have run rampant in other spaces.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2021
• Humor and the cautionary tale of allowing addiction to run rampant were the lasting legacy of Chris Farley.
  — George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
• But even when controlling for inflation - which has run rampant recently - the price of college in Alabama has still gone up.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 4 Sep. 2022
• Join 90 others in the comments View Comments Poor hearts and their consequences can run rampant in a family over generations, a fact Nicholls knew all too well.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 June 2024
• Time seems to either slow down or speed up, recollections are suspect, and paranoia and violence run rampant.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• Gray and Howard are just two directors who find that surprises run rampant in edit suites, including for films popping up in this year’s awards season.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• Without knowledge of how diseases spread, these close quarters encouraged bacteria and viruses to run rampant through the ranks.
  — Rachel Lance, Time, 14 Aug. 2021
• What happened near Barrington Lake that day isn't fully clear, at least to the public — though local speculation has run rampant.
  — Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024
• Will Enola Holmes 2 play out as well as the original — especially as fourth-wall-breaking heroines run rampant?
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
• The planet continues to experience a massive loss in forest land as the world warms and allows severe wildfires to run rampant in regions spanning the globe.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
• But after war breaks out, panic and civil unrest run rampant, with the local authorities unable to stem the tide of mass hysteria.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• The backdrop for equities remains challenged for the year ahead as concerns about the impact of Fed policy on growth and corporate earnings run rampant.
  — Isabelle Lee, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024