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mad

[mad] / mæd /






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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

"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

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

"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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