noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spread like wildfire (= spread extremely quickly )
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The news spread like wildfire through the town.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
spread
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The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court.
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Word of it spread like wildfire among geophysicists.
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The news had spread like wildfire .
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Not all of these students would be involved in work-based learning even if the movement spread like wildfire , but many would.
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With the spectre of a ruinous trade war looming which could spread like wildfire round the world.
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When low performance leads to an organizational crisis, rumors of executive malfeasance spread like wildfire among rank-and-file members.
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But on the streets the book's reputation spread like wildfire , selling thousands of copies in Brixton alone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another wildfire movement was liberation theology, expressed in Base Ecclesiastical Communities.
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It arrived in our town by word of mouth and crackled like wildfire through the grapevine of gab and gossip.
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It was the sort of story that would spread like wildfire .
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Late Monday, the wildfire was still out of control.
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That wildfire feeling might have got a hold a month back, but it would not be allowed to do so again.
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The giggling spread like wildfire , and eventually forced the closing of some schools.
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The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court.
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Word of it spread like wildfire among geophysicists.