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What does amuck mean?

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  1. In a frantic or frenzied and violent manner; in a confused, jumbled or uncontrolled state.
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As Michael Lewis explains so well, exploitative Wall Street behavior has run amuck, eroding trust and investor confidence.
And you see corporate crime running amuck with very limited enforcement resources.
More precisely, the film's fiction has nature running amuck as a result of toxic waste, dumped out of corporate greed.
Exploitation runs amuck as the director uses the clan to create what he considers lively entertainment.
Its muddy streets, although probably no muddier than those of Greensboro, symbolized the mire in which any of her charges might run amuck.
It's a story about intelligent machines that run amuck when they are given emotions which lead them to conspire to destroy the human race.

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