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Signs that the virus was rampaging through communities were widespread in cities such as Beijing and Wuhan.

From Reuters • Dec. 12, 2022

But when the alpha version of the virus was rampaging, vaccines were just beginning to be deployed, so comparisons are tricky.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2021

In May 2020, when Covid-19 was rampaging through the poultry facilities, 56 percent of those who got sick were Latino workers, and Hall County had twice the infection rate of neighboring Gwinnett County.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2021

Swing is his stock-in-trade and it is subservient to him, the best exponent England has had since the youthful Botham was rampaging.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2013

Now he shore was rampaging all over creation last night—he didn't have no dreams nor no sleep in that bunk last night, nohow.

From Hopalong Cassidy by Mulford, Clarence E.