mad
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The client ended up just getting mad at everyone, and Anspach couldn’t continue as her adviser.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Those letters went out like mad to all kinds of courts that were dealing with standing in environmental cases.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“What a mad, amazing three days,” she recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Did the failing person in question want it bad enough that he gave himself permission to get mad?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
When he looked ahead in the darkness and saw that other dogs were pulling while he was riding on the sled he went mad.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
"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
"And of course now I'm even madder than I was before because I've thought of little else now for two years."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
But I don’t think they have been, and I’ve been trying to unpack why I often feel madder after scrolling than I ever did on Twitter.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2025
“The more I looked at it, the madder I got,” he recalled.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
“Hollyhock and tansy; madder and bedstraw . . .” But they fell into no comfortable rhythm and did not rhyme.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
It was the maddest the sport had gotten in ages at anything that didn’t involve Lane Kiffin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
She called it "the maddest experience. It was just really exciting".
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
Josie couldn’t even tell which specific scene he was talking about, or which awful thing one of them had done to the other she felt maddest or guiltiest about.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
I think to find him all madded up and mortified; but he's strangely cheerful for one who has suffered.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
But Hanierri madded me; and now he's told Dominie Kirkland's praying Indians, and not one o' them will stir from Tioga—the chicken-hearted knaves!
From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
But Claudia's nonsense madded me, though her speech had been no broader than was fashionable among a gentry so closely in touch with London, where speech, and manners, too, were broader still.
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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 Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
"The madded land" is a phrase intended to prove that the law-giver of taste, Johnson himself, could lodge the fury in his breast when opportunity occurred.
From Flower of the Mind by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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
That’s the kind of iron will you can develop after a couple of decades living by yourself, far from the madding crowd.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2020
It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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