run wild
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"I think if not, people's imaginations run wild and I think we would all like to know exactly what is going on," he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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
Speculation has already begun to run wild on social media, but we still know very little about the situation.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2024
He taught me to cook, and otherwise let me run wild with my cousins.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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