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madman

[mad-man, -muhn] / ˈmædˌmæn, -mən /


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“You can’t let a madman or you can’t let a mad ideology have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

"Bibi acted like a madman," a White House official told the news website Axios.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

But heavy metal’s favorite madman leaves us with his reminder that “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll.”

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025

The real fault should be assigned to the people who gave this madman a platform from which to spout his nutso rants.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2014

The victor was the red priest, Thoros of Myr, a madman who shaved his head and fought with a flaming sword.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Having evaded 12 homicidal masked madmen, madwomen, mad-cousins and mad-siblings, Sidney is now a married mother of three who prefers the last name Evans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

It’s another thing to go elbow to elbow with a group of elite madmen barreling down an Alpine pass at 50 miles per hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

Things got pretty weird on the food scene, too, with the R&D labs for the nation’s fast-food chains seemingly overtaken by Frankensteinian madmen.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

There are few more efficient ways to unleash the demons, madmen, and ghosts hidden in the darkest crevices of the human psyche than to inject anxiety into our imaginations.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022

As Borgenicht puts it, the Jews “bit deep into the welcoming land and worked like madmen at what they knew. ”

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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