Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for havocked
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The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Aug. 2025 -
The Buckeyes benefitted from a pair of penalties, including a face-mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.—
Joe Reedy,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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News and weather reports record that smoke blotted out the Sun on one out of every three days, and sometimes sunlight never pierced the darkness.—
Robert Wyss,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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Urban skyglow has robbed many of us of our night skies and the vast majority of the population of the United States now lives in regions where the stars are mostly blotted out by excessive lighting.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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ProPublica and High Country News observed overgrazing in multiple states, including streambeds trampled by cattle, grasslands denuded by grazing and creeks fouled by cow corpses.—
Mark Olalde,
ProPublica,
12 Jan. 2026
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Representatives from the nonprofit animal rights organization NYCLASS, short for New Yorkers for Clean, Livable, and Safe Streets, said people had to jump and run out of the way to avoid being trampled.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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The last round of expansion, adding Seattle and Vancouver, came at significant cost to the league’s six original franchises, which had their rosters plundered in the expansion draft.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2026
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Many of the country's ancient temples were plundered during a genocide in the 1970s and subsequent civil war.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
4 Dec. 2025
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Inflation has ravaged household budgets.—
Ali Vaez,
Time,
15 Jan. 2026
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The Texans have been ravaged by injuries on the interior defensive line this season, and many of those players will be free agents.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Social workers will give the suitcases to children who are removed from home or moved from place to place, kids who travel on field trips, or reunite with family.—
Sharon Chin,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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He was removed by federal agents, who made entry into the residence and took the person to an ambulance.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
15 Jan. 2026
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For months, mausoleums in the graveyard, some more than a hundred years old, were being looted in the dead of night, police said.—
Gaya Gupta,
Washington Post,
10 Jan. 2026
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The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces’ two-year occupation of Khartoum has also seen 4,000 items looted from the Sudan National Museum, including mummies dating from 2,500 BC.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Urban Communities took out a $25 million loan on 15 properties in June 2022.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Documents unearthed in Broward County records show the LLC took out a short-term balloon mortgage in 2017 for an unspecified amount rather than seek aconventional bank loan.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Havocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/havocked. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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