run wild
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Jeanne Collopy is an animal lover from Colorado, where horses run wild, she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
In some ways, the collective skepticism was liberating: Whiteman and Baum, who died in 1998, could let their imaginations run wild.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
By contrast, when Franglen composed the music for the Wind Traders - a nomadic clan of salesmen, who travel by airship - he could let his imagination run wild.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
The plants spread out and run wild with large green leaves and magnificent five-pointed, edible, yellow blossoms.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Unlike the movies, you don’t dash, leap, run wild.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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