mad
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And if you zoom out just a little bit, you see this same disturbing inequality through a much bigger lens—and people are finally getting mad about it.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
“It’s a love song that I wrote after a breakup. Every other song that I wrote was making me so mad, just overthinking myself into a deep dark hole,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Let’s assume that if you’re reading this far, you already know the first movie’s big twist: the real killer wasn’t Jason Voorhees, but his mad mama.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
“It’s cool that my stocks keep going up, I’m not mad about that,” he said earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Wonderfully, incredibly, miraculously he has somehow gotten two chocolate chip cookies through that mad night without breaking them.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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"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
She grows a dye garden of rarer plants like indigo and madder, along with marigold flowers, sunflower seeds and mushrooms.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Even madder than our list of the best TV shows on Netflix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
I ignored them for a while, but I was getting madder and madder.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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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
Looking back on his 25 years in comedy, Bishop said the "maddest thing" was how quickly it had gone and how it had felt like "a parallel life".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
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
She was probably the maddest I had ever seen her.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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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 Marietta Holley
Look you, Johnson himself could lodge the fury in his responsible breast: And dubious title shakes the madded land.
From Hearts of Controversy by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
So brooded Elizabeth in her heart, madded with malicious envy and passionate jealousy.
From Beatrice by Henry Rider Haggard
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 boss hadn't no righd to let you go———" "Yes, he had, I madded him first; I was a fool.
From Stories of a Western Town by Octave Thanet
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
This is a crowded sports market, even with the Sonics gone for a decade and a half, and standing out from the madding crowd isn’t easy.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
It is rugged and isolated, home to moose and certainly far from the madding crowd.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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