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verb

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Recent Examples of havoc
Noun
Even after hours of fast traveling, horseback riding, and slowly jogging from point A to point B, there were more quests to find, gear to loot, and havoc to wreak. PC Magazine, 22 May 2025 Plankton: The Movie arrives exclusively on Netflix in 2025. 06 of 06 The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Next year SpongeBob returns to theaters with his fourth film, The Search for SquarePants, as Plankton wrecks havoc on Netflix. Rendy Jones, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2024
Verb
The narrow streets bend, wrap back on themselves, and otherwise create directional havoc. Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2025 The consent decree clears a major hurdle for the Omnicom-IPG deal, with the companies seeking to merge as artificial intelligence prepares to wreck havoc across the industry. Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for havoc
Recent Examples of Synonyms for havoc
Noun
  • Art the Clown is going to raise hell as the Terrifier film franchise comes to Halloween Horror Nights for the first time.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • What fresh hell will Wednesday’s Grandmama (the Absolutely Fabulous Joanna Lumley) raise at Nevermore?
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 9 July 2025
Verb
  • In Please Don't Feed the Children, Destry's camera follows a group of teenagers on the run in a dystopian United States ravaged by disease.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 25 June 2025
  • Newcomer Alfie Williams breathes new life into the pulsating horror as Spike, a 12-year-old boy who resides on a small British island with a community of survivors, 28 years after the rage virus first ravaged the United Kingdom.
    EW.com, EW.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Among the chaos is Rupert Friend, playing Martin Krebs, who's assembling a group to take to the scene of the devastation in hopes of extracting DNA from the creatures roaming the island to fund his next medical breakthrough.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Onganía’s rule lasted only a few years before he was deposed and replaced by another general, and soon the political chaos was matched by economic disruption.
    Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • July 6, 2025: A large scale of destruction in Georgetown, downed trees show the aftermath of raging floodwaters in the South San Gabriel River.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • Regardless, the truck’s destruction eventually creates a bonding moment with Hank, Bobby, and the most reliable member of the elder generation that Hank knows: the memory of his old truck.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 7 July 2025
Verb
  • One night, the cemetery is plundered; graves are tipped over, their wi-fi connections disabled.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 June 2025
  • While pestilence crept over the walls of cities and the countryside fell into desolation—many foreign conquerors of Europe knew how to fight and plunder but not to plow or sow—the monks preserved words.
    Bernd Roeck June 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Even before the credits start to unspool, Star Wars fashion, director Richard Lester lets fly with a series of slapstick sight gags that pile disaster on disaster until only Superman himself can untangle the mess.
    Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025
  • The Doheny Longboard Surfing Association also gathers in the early-morning hours at the Dana Point beach to clean up the crowd’s mess.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Businesses unknowingly employ these fictitious vendors, incurring massive financial losses and data breaches.
    Steve Durbin, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Gauff, by contrast, was 20-3 at that stage, including a loss to Sofia Kenin at Wimbledon in 2023.
    CBS News, CBS News, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • The crowds are usually made up of people desperate for food who grab supplies off the passing trucks, and armed gangs have also looted trucks.
    Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • The Journal Sentinel is not specifying the location at the request of tribal officials, due to the risk of looting.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025

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