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Meanings of run amok in English

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Usage of run amok in English
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The dangers of Los Angeles, of democracy run amok, were locked out.
Dark rivers of the heart
2
Ascertain whether his madness is feigned, or whether his tapirs run amok.
Number9Dream
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It is better to accept it than run amok among inexplicable infinities.
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance
4
The radio phone-ins run amok with the guaranteed firestorm of racial bait.
The Irish Times
5
He felt as he imagined madmen did when about to run amok.
The Avalanche: A Mystery Story
6
Here was Death, sure enough-MechanicalDeath run amok-butwhere was the glory?
At Suvla Bay / Being the notes and sketches of scenes, character...
7
Many think they are going to die, go mad or run amok.
The Irish Times
8
This is just the latest example of political correctness run amok.
Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
9
Investors can, however, ensure Neumann is the last founder able to run amok.
Reuters
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He described a surveillance state run amok and vowed to rein it in.
The Irish Times
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It has done precisely the same wherever it is allowed to run amok.
Independent.ie
12
But freedom of navigation is not the freedom to run amok.
The Guardian
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For the chance to run amok in the wee hours of the night.
Pines
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Again, these are normal biochemical processes that run amok when they become overloaded.
Prescription alternatives: hundreds of safe, natural, prescripti...
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Or it was a maniac run amok with a fifty-pound sledgehammer.
Haunted: a novel of stories
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No golem has ever existed that did not eventually run amok.
The Golem and the Jinni
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