run wild
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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
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
Her aunt had always prophesied that Elizabeth would come to no good end, proud, and vain, and foolish as she was, and having been allowed to run wild all her childhood days.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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