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“It is infectious to play a character who sees the best in people and isn’t mad at the world for all its foibles and bullies and shadows,” Sudeikis recently told the Hollywood Reporter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

“The boy gets really mad at his family, right?” she begins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The lesson: it's not that clubs have gone transfer mad, but that they can simply afford more.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

He was mad then and he’s still mad now.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

I think I would have gone mad for sure if Papa hadn’t come walking up about that time.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

"I'm mad about the price, but I'm even madder about why it's so high," the 28-year-old told AFP.

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

You can't be any madder at us than I am...

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

“The more I looked at it, the madder I got,” he recalled.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

Depending on how things go, the situation might get even madder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

We get mad at those who hurt or deceive us—we get even madder when they make us feel like fools.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

Theresa said the call was "the maddest experience. It was just really exciting".

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026

Among those: a sticker bearing the “Why not us?” mantra defining the maddest of March moments here in decades.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

In one of the maddest storylines of March, Monson’s team did not go quietly in what was supposed to be his final week on the job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

In this maddest of Marches, it’s the first time since seeding began in 1979 that no team seeded better than No. 4 made the Final Four.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2023

I brought my hand back down and it was holding the biggest, maddest hornet I’d ever seen.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

That madded Josiah and he said they kep’ it back because they wuz clost and wanted to save.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

Let Hist'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes the madded land.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

For Mrs. Bleecker was very wrathful, Euan, and Lana's indiscretions madded her....

From The Hidden Children by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Take such a phrase as "the madded land"; there, indeed, is a word coined by the noble rage as the last century evoked it.

From Flower of the Mind by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

As for this Mrs. Hamilton, it madded me to hear of her.

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Clustered barnacle-like at the end of a glorious arc of sand, Beadnell, along with the neighbouring villages of Bamburgh and Seahouses, has long been a magnet for those seeking refuge from the madding crowd.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

Far from the madding crowd, not to mention from the alluring presence of his MI6 handler and former lover, Faith Green, Gabriel works away in his cottage on a travel book about the world’s rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

The madding crowd functions differently on this volcanic island, with vistas so jaw-droppingly picturesque, they’re frequently punctuated by social media influencers and soon-to-be brides and grooms, along with their attendant photographers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

When I asked her what facet of horticulture she likes most, she moved even farther from the madding crowd.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2018

It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady