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  • Wreaking havoc with insulin and your body's biochemistry is not clever.

    Justin Stoneman: America: A Big, Fat, Stupid Nation Justin Stoneman 2010

  • Wreaking havoc on global well being, with animals and individuals becoming ill daily from contact with contaminated water eco-systems, without dramatic and fundamental action, it's a problem that'll only continue to grow exponentially.

    Michael DeJong: Risky Runoff: From Fish-Roe to Ritalin (My Reaction to "Poisoned Waters," a Recent PBS Frontline Story) 2009

  • Wreaking even more havoc was Bush's defunding, seven years ago, of the U.N. Population Fund on the false claim that it supports China's one-child policy.

    Kelli Conlin: Reclaiming Foreign Policy 2009

  • But dang, I knew who played on the Monkee's records (The Wreaking Crew).

    Jill Sobule: Give Me Credit 2008

  • Wreaking havoc and taking more lives ten miles away.

    CNN Transcript May 26, 2008 2008

  • Wreaking havoc with the traditional paradigms of exegesis and interpretation, his work unsettles the models of causation and development organizing our ideas about history, questions the assumptions about knowledge and representation structuring our aesthetics, and denounces the woefully incomplete understanding of the performative power of language that informs our moral philosophy.

    Reading, Begging, Paul de Man 2005

  • Wreaking his craven alarm upon the hapless prisoner, he shook it; with a horrible bump slammed it upon the floor; placed his foot upon it.

    Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

  • Wreaking havoc all night, the Patriots held the Buccaneers to just 64 yards rushing and sacked

    SI.com 2011

  • Butler doesn't mind an up-tempo game; that's exactly what the Rams want, using their "Wreaking Havoc" style to force turnovers and create opportunities in the open court.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Wreaking his vengeance upon them, he cut through them with his sword, and in less than an hour he hurled down twenty of their most puissant knights.

    Antar : 1820

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