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madden

[mad-n] / ˈmæd n /


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Written and directed by the Australian actor Frances O’Connor, making a vibrant feature filmmaking debut, it will surely madden sticklers for accuracy, which is all to the good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Not the least of Michael’s gifts is the ability to madden other minds.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2018

The glacier-paced interactions of the actors here may initially madden you; by the end, the sense of the oppressive weight that controls their motions breaks your heart.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2016

They find little to suppress, but cause long delays that madden newswriters in hours of crisis.

From Time Magazine Archive

They must have been things meant not to quiet it but to madden it.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

As warmer spotlights go, “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” may never fully expunge what maddens and mystifies about the untimely end of troubled souls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

So they're lashing out at the idea of competence that maddens them.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025

Francis has a tendency for making off-the-cuff public remarks, a trait that maddens both supporters and critics alike.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

Nothing is ever certain with Klinsmann, whose unpredictability maddens U.S. supporters and catches his own players off guard.

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2016

It maddens me that Carlyle refuses to commit to any sort of opinion.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

De Gaulle maddened his British hosts, and particularly Churchill, with his ceaseless complaints and ingratitude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Except Paul isn’t magic; she waves her red flags high and proud, and the good folks at ABC, Hulu and Disney charged at them with the oblivious desperation of so many trapped, maddened bulls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

Local officials around the state say they have been similarly maddened.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2021

I just sat there and looked on, maddened and disheartened.

From Washington Post ● May 21, 2018

Her betrayal so maddened them, they saw to it that she would suffer forever, even after death.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Zwick: The book has a bunch of cool stories that are fun to read, inspiring in a lot of cases, and sometimes maddening.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

I’ve come to think of it as a practical, action-oriented cousin of intuitive eating, a framework I find genuinely generous but occasionally maddening in its abstraction.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Moores are in the same maddening predicament as hundreds of Palisades and Eaton fire survivors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

A maddening feature of the “is Kevin Warsh too dovish?” debate in his first months is how it misses the point of his chairmanship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

His gallop was so disorganized that he had a maddening tendency to whack himself in the front ankle with his own hind hoof.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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