run wild
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The fortified vault in Kentucky is closed to the public, allowing imaginations to run wild with conspiracies and myths: that the gold is gone or fake, or the vault contains alien objects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The plants spread out and run wild with large green leaves and magnificent five-pointed, edible, yellow blossoms.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025
One was a girl who was said to run wild in her community in the north of the city.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025
It’s like a metaphor for its own creation: Letting one’s imagination run wild is at once the point of the show and the thing that produced it.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024
But the trees had run wild, and the ground was covered with fruit that was no longer harvested, for the people who once lived here had long since left to find an easier life elsewhere.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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