as in to inflict
to cause to suffer punishment or vengeance for
wreaked their vengeance on those they considered enemies
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Any business leader knows last-minute changes can wreak operational havoc.
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Alan Baratz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Ece Yildirim 11 Hours Ago Los Angeles wildfires could be costliest blaze in U.S. history
The wildfires wreaking devastation in the Los Angeles area could become the costliest blaze in U.S. history.
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But not before Peter has wreaked all kinds of further havoc, including assaults on a schoolbus full of the boy’s classmates, and on the unfortunate family of Joey, who becomes another abductee.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 15 Jan. 2025
The closest analogy to what Whannell is trying to do here isn’t a werewolf movie so much as David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), which turned a ’50s B-movie into a gory, gooey interpretation of the havoc disease wreaks on those suffering from both sides of the hospital bed.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
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Alan Baratz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Ece Yildirim 11 Hours Ago Los Angeles wildfires could be costliest blaze in U.S. history
The wildfires wreaking devastation in the Los Angeles area could become the costliest blaze in U.S. history.
—Ece Yildirim,russell Leung,fred Imbert,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
But not before Peter has wreaked all kinds of further havoc, including assaults on a schoolbus full of the boy’s classmates, and on the unfortunate family of Joey, who becomes another abductee.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 15 Jan. 2025
The closest analogy to what Whannell is trying to do here isn’t a werewolf movie so much as David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), which turned a ’50s B-movie into a gory, gooey interpretation of the havoc disease wreaks on those suffering from both sides of the hospital bed.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
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