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or amuck
as in frantically
in a confused and reckless manner
returned to the classroom to find an escaped snake and her students running amok
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Recent Examples of amok
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2021
PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2025
Even the White House has become embroiled in the debate, with Communications Director Steven Cheung weighing in on X.
Cancel culture run amok.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
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Adverb
Wyatt Russell has been terrific as this avatar of male insecurity run wildly amok, but the script isn’t always doing him favors.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2021
Adjective
McAfee still caught most of them, but one ran amok, encrypting over 10,000 files and displaying its ransom note, despite the fact that all of McAfee’s antivirus components remained active.
—PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2025
Even the White House has become embroiled in the debate, with Communications Director Steven Cheung weighing in on X.
Cancel culture run amok.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amok
Adverb
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Soda had left campus just 30 minutes before the shooting happened, and was texting frantically with colleagues during the attack.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
20 Aug. 2025
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Democrats in the Legislature are spending their first week back from summer recess frantically redrawing the state’s congressional maps in response to redistricting efforts in Texas.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This has unintended consequences when both Batel and Spock share a vision that sends Spock into a berserk rage.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
31 July 2025
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But that was before Watkins suffered a season-ending ACL tear and before UConn star Paige Bueckers went absolutely berserk, scoring 40 in the Sweet 16.—
Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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All of it wild-caught.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
orlandosentinel.com,
14 Aug. 2020
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Our first stop is in a wild-looking stretch 200 yards south of the railroad tracks and State Street.—
Paul A. Smith,
Journal Sentinel,
2 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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This new version understands the overall assignment: bring back a few familiar faces; reintroduce your resident homicidal maniac hellbent on revenge; gather an insanely photogenic cast and kill most of them.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 2025
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Based on Roth’s fictitious trailer of the same name that appeared in Grindhouse (2007), Thanksgiving takes place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where a masked maniac terrorizes the residents one year after a Black Friday riot ended in tragedy.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
Adverb
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The Beatles had arrived in Chicago red-hot, in the middle of a wildly popular national tour that began with the famous concert in New York’s Shea Stadium.—
Michael Peregrine,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
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Mario Kart veterans must spend time unlearning their drifting muscle memory due to Air Riders' wildly different angles and timing.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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On June 22, the United States launched an attack on Fordo, an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility buried deep within a mountain, using the deepest-penetrating conventional bomb the United States has ever built.—
Samuel Granados,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Alberta’s 2001 Chisholm fire released so much energy that someone in Washington thought that Canada had detonated a nuclear bomb.—
Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Yet what starts as sensible due diligence becomes maniacal overpreparation.—
Melissa Sierra,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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The Redeem Team’s most entertaining stories revolve around Bryant’s maniacal work ethic.—
Skyler Trepel Published,
EW.com,
10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Petsch visited the annual celebration of all things fan culture to promote the The Strangers: Chapter 2, which picks up where Chapter 1 left off — with Petsch's Maya seemingly saved from the titular Strangers' demented attack, but with the menacing Scarecrow still hunting her down.—
Ryan Coleman Updated,
EW.com,
25 July 2025
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This is like the dark, demented, twisted little sister of Under The Tuscan Sun.—
Karin Slaughter,
People.com,
29 July 2025
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“Amok.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amok. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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