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putting down a violent fracas among prison inmates;

A couple of mobsters were rubbed out in a fracas with the law.

There was a fracas at the bar last night.

The fracas between the two rival gangs escalated quickly.

The fracas broke out during the protest.

The fracas resulted in several arrests.

The fracas was caught on camera.

She tried to break up the fracas before it got out of hand.

The fracas left several people injured.

The fracas ended with both parties walking away.

Police were called to the scene of the fracas.

The fracas erupted over a dispute about money.

The students are black (as, secretly, is he), and the fracas ends his career.

And there was a fracas, in which Captain Cook was killed by at least one Hawaiian.

You and me, we had our little fracas.

You and me, we had our little fracas, huh?

While privacy concerns and even large-scale data breaches are nothing new, experts say the fracas at Facebook has brought the dilemma of increasingly powerful technology into better focus.