mad
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That kind of hedging is the danger of making friends mad.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I got mad at myself because I knew I was better than that,” Díaz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
And none of us enjoy — none of us wants to be mad at the person that lives across from us.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Ms. Kingsolver wants to make you cry; she also wants to make you mad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
If I have a heart attack now, I’m gonna be so mad!
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
“The more I looked at it, the madder I got,” he recalled.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Even madder than our list of the best TV shows on Netflix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
Nothing makes him madder than to open a paper that is badly folded.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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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
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
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It madded Josiah dretfully, and he sez, "I feel it my duty as a deacon to go and give in my testimony and break up such wicked doin's."
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley
Let Hist'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes the madded land.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Well, I was going on to get off a few more things I'd got madded up to, but I caught the look in poor Hetty's face, and it would have melted a stone.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
I told Josiah what he said about him, for it madded me, but Josiah took it cool.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
It madded me to pine here, making rhymes, while outside the sweet wind whispered: "Come out, Michael—come out into the green delight!"
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
If you really want to avoid the madding crowds go offseason.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
Far from the madding crowd, we experienced Oahu’s spectacular beauty in, on and around the water.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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