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Ben Franklin, famously asked by a woman on the street in Philadelphia what sort of government the Constitutional Convention had wrought, is reported to have said, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

It would be decades, however, before the FBI itself offered anything close to an apology, let alone any effort to repair the carnage it had wrought.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2025

During oral arguments in Rahimi, Barrett sounded deeply uncomfortable with what her court had wrought.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2024

Her sons - then aged 10, 12, and 22 - were also struggling to take in the devastation Covid had wrought on the family.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

She couldn’t risk the chaos that her first marriage had wrought.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers