mad
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He added that he was "very mad about it".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The client ended up just getting mad at everyone, and Anspach couldn’t continue as her adviser.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
People are just always mad at him about something, and she’s not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
When I discovered that I didn’t have one little rock in my pocket, that really made me mad.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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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
You can't be any madder at us than I am...
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 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
Alex says, madder than I’ve ever heard him.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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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
"It was an incredible feeling to score that winner in such an important game, in a game that was full of emotion and the strangest, maddest game I've ever played in or witnessed," said Maguire.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 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
And now as I came up on her back porch, Aunt Loma was the maddest white woman you ever saw.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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
She madded me first: what else when she wouldn't believe a word I said?
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
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
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
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
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
When I asked her what facet of horticulture she likes most, she moved even farther from the madding crowd.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2018
It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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