Words similar to amok

Example sentences for: amok

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Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., declared on Meet the Press , "Ken Starr is once again running amok."
Since they blame Democrats for outing Livingston, and they don't think his adultery should have ended his career, they agreed on the Sunday talk shows that "personal destruction" has run amok and that politicians shouldn't be judged by their past indiscretions.
But, even as he emulates the rooster that thinks the sun rises because it crows, Morris demonstrates how right Panetta and the others were to be terrified about his running amok in the White House.
Applying the same insight to more serious instances of spending run amok, we'll end up making recommendations like "abolish the Pentagon" or "abolish the Department of Health and Human Services"--recommendations that are surely unrealistic and possibly unwise.
As a coda to our conversation yesterday about the perils of technology run amok, see today's "Work & Family" column in the Wall Street Journal , in which "A Technology Junkie Learns To Live Life a Little Less Plugged in."