Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for havocked
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The mascot broke through a barricade at that year's Sugar Bowl and nearly trampled the dog and onlookers at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
24 Dec. 2024 -
Livestock not native to the desert have grazed and trampled the plants tortoises like to eat, spreading unpalatable nonnative grasses in their wake.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Dec. 2024
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While an investigation is underway, police estimated during a press conference on Wednesday that the number of trees cut down was 11, according to KNBC.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Some employees had been furloughed to cut down on costs, and Outside had developed a reputation for not paying freelancers in a timely manner.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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For decades, the terrorist group has plundered Gaza and sacrificed its people in pursuit of an unending messianic war to eliminate the Jewish state.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2025
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Villagers plundered the shrine and sold the bronzes to antiquities dealers like Robert Hecht, who faced allegations of smuggling before his death in 2012.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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Both crosses were removed from the cathedral’s steeple and spire in 1998 for building renovations.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
24 Dec. 2024
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Switching to Bournemouth removed Adams from the frenzy and bright lights that surround Leeds.—
Felipe Cardenas,
The Athletic,
24 Dec. 2024
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Despite being looted in the past, the tomb still held valuable artifacts and evidence of its use as a ritual site during the Roman era.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2025
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Their testimonies—detailing missing relatives, murdered family members, homes looted then burned—should shake us to our core.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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That’s already ahead of Wisconsin’s 2023 national record of $56 million, which obliterated the previous high-water mark of $15 million set during the 2004 election of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, even when adjusting for inflation.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Thanks to major investments in public health, diseases such as smallpox, polio, yellow fever, malaria, measles, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tuberculosis have either been obliterated or become vanishingly rare.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Havocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/havocked. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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