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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
Defensively, coach Todd Bowles is emphasizing more big plays and counting on free-agent pass rusher Haason Reddick to create havoc. The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 In almost all the cases, police and administrators said the reports were hoaxes or swatting calls, which is when someone uses temporary cellphone numbers and voice-cloaking apps to create havoc. Dennis Romero, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for havoc
Recent Examples of Synonyms for havoc
Noun
  • Brian is there waiting for her and holy hell are these two into each other.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Yes, there are teams that constantly underwhelm, but the teams that remain talented and in purgatory hell might be worse off.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And that's not where the worst of the devastation lies.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in three parts in the magazine in 1962 and later as a book, alerted the country to the devastation of the pesticide DDT and is credited with launching the modern environmental movement.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That’s what happened to 64-year-old retired nurse Donna Niebauer when, over the course of one terrifying night, Hurricane Helene ravaged her peaceful mountain community of Burnsville, North Carolina and cut off power for more than two months.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Yes, the Lions were bounced from the Divisional Round of the playoffs, but to be fair, they were absolutely ravaged by injuries, particularly on the defensive side of the ball.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Bovino relies on Border Patrol SWAT-style teams to avoid the chaos that erupted during an hourslong standoff at a Home Depot in Paramount on June 7.
    Elliot Spagat, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This project became both an ethnographic and photographic study of how women inhabit, resist, and reimagine their roles in a context denned by deep contradictions – beauty and chaos, devotion and repression, tradition and transformation.
    Vogue, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Critical wildlife habitat may be put at risk for alteration or wholesale destruction.
    Ryan Gellert, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But tenants have little legal footing to stand on in combating that destruction.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The towns of Harrisonville, Butler and Osceola were plundered during Bleeding Kansas.
    Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • These will hold a particular interest for the Bloomsbury enthusiast because the majority of them are previously unpublished (an impressive feat, given how often the various archives have been plundered by other biographers).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • If the mess-maker is solid, use a spatula, dull kitchen knife, or the edge of a credit card to lift it from the surface of the upholstery.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The first crazy thing that happens to the movie Smurls is when a kitchen chandelier almost falls on them, though the most visceral is when oldest sister Dawn Smurl (Beau Gadsdon) suddenly vomits up pieces of glass, leaving the sink and her face a bloody mess.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The 49ers’ defensive coordinator, Nate Faanes, found the right lineup combinations in Saturday night’s loss, even without starting defensive linemen Jaylon Johnson and DJ Burgess, the latter being out for the season with an upper-body injury.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Florida Democrats, weakened by years of losses and fractured messaging, continue to face a shrinking electorate.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025

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