mad
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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
It made me mad that Red knew these things and I didn’t.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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
Depending on how things go, the situation might get even madder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
What would make her madder — to not get the book back at all, or to get it back with a page ripped out?
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
An upside of the upsets: perhaps the maddest March ever.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
This NFL season had one of the maddest scrambles to the playoffs that I can remember in all my years covering the league.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
She was probably the maddest I had ever seen her.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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"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
She madded me first: what else when she wouldn't believe a word I said?
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
A tailoress, too, I believe, for she has patched and mended for me; and she madded me because she would take no pay.
From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
But the critter was after her, too, and it madded him when I fired, I s’pose.”
From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster
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
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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