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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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cause
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Mr James Richardson, prosecuting, said Bedworth caused havoc on a scale which couldn't be imagined.
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Locomotives weighing thirty or forty tons caused havoc where wheel met rail, iron rails sometimes needing replacement every two years.
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Unexpected demands on your money can cause havoc with even the most carefully planned budgets - at least for a short while.
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But they can also cause havoc to buildings.
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Whatever the Navy's intentions, their shells were landing in the Commando positions and causing some havoc .
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The two Governors after Paullinus were diplomats and administrators and not like the military men who had caused so much havoc .
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But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet, for instance.
create
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Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction.
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A weak yen creates havoc in several ways for Detroit.
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The currents so produced can create havoc , even causing whole plants to shut down.
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Actually, there is no one food capable of creating physiological havoc all by itself.
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If we had some wingers, Les, I tell you we'd create havoc with our crosses.
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At least they chose the lesser of two evils, but even so Tank managed to create havoc .
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The catfish that is sometimes suggested is carnivorous and pugnacious and generally creates havoc .
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He created havoc on the offensive boards and did a good job of blocking shots.
play
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Direct sunlight plays havoc with the varnish.
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Wind currents and cloud cover always played havoc with our helicopters.
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That was when drought dried up the lawns, playing havoc with lawnmower sales and profits.
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It gets the crops growing, but it can play havoc with a racetrack and the animals that run on it.
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Cold gusts dropped the wind chill into the low 40s and played havoc with final-round scores in the highest-scoring Nissan since 1984.
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They also play havoc with your skin and it tends to get a bit sweaty under all the make-up I have to wear.
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He can disrupt things, play havoc .
wreak
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Teenagers can not wreak that kind of havoc when they are stuck inside.
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Beyond this potential for human suffering, the global ignorance of longitude wreaked economic havoc on the grandest scale.
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Unassimilated, they might one day wreak havoc in her life.
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The storm wreaked havoc on trains and highways, making it unlikely thousands of investors and traders will arrive at work.
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But we all know that a moment's overload, may wreak havoc .
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And they wreak havoc with the goal of raising revenue efficiently.
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This is a critical feature on such an instrument, as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability.
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Seeing him wreak such havoc among a supposedly invincible foe, the Elves within the shrine were heartened.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wreak havoc/mayhem/destruction (on sth)
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And they wreak havoc with the goal of raising revenue efficiently.
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But we all know that a moment's overload, may wreak havoc.
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Did they hire a private eye to wreak havoc on the life of the harasser?
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Since elk can also wreak havoc in cropland and forestry plantations, a record 70,000 animals are being culled this hunting season.
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The goat, being a goat, wreaks havoc, and the tenant grows desperate.
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The storm wreaked havoc on trains and highways, making it unlikely thousands of investors and traders will arrive at work.
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This is a critical feature on such an instrument, as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability.
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Unassimilated, they might one day wreak havoc in her life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A weak yen creates havoc in several ways for Detroit.
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Direct sunlight plays havoc with the varnish.
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Does your horse play havoc with your budget?
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It gets the crops growing, but it can play havoc with a racetrack and the animals that run on it.
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Surely that gun could not have wreaked this havoc !
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The storm wreaked havoc on trains and highways, making it unlikely thousands of investors and traders will arrive at work.
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The trick is to stumble on one of these Aladdin's caves of fishing delight - and wreak havoc .
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Wind currents and cloud cover always played havoc with our helicopters.