run wild
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After pestering the local council into submission, two sets of goals were hammered into a nearby patch of gravel where the McGinn brothers, extended family and friends could run wild.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
He added that he voted for Mayor Karen Bass, but “almost everything Pratt said about the homeless resonated with me. … The homeless run wild here, without consequence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
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
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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