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Gareth believes about 200 people were there to cheer him on for the final stretch and it was "a bit mad all those people were there just for me".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

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 taken a long, mad sprint to get this close.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

He also draws on his own experience of epilepsy to explore the fear of mental disintegration, having written to his doctor in 1867 that he was “afraid of going mad or falling into idiocy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Finally, in a kind of mad worry, I took off his harness and let him run free, thinking he might just follow us as we made our way through the darkness.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

"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

But I don’t think they have been, and I’ve been trying to unpack why I often feel madder after scrolling than I ever did on Twitter.

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2025

Depending on how things go, the situation might get even madder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

“I’m serious. I’ll be madder at you than I am now.”

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

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

I brought my hand back down and it was holding the biggest, maddest hornet I’d ever seen.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

I think to find him all madded up and mortified; but he's strangely cheerful for one who has suffered.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Take such a word as “madded”—“the madded land”; there indeed is a word created for the noble rage, as the eighteenth century understood it. 

From Hearts of Controversy by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

For Mrs. Bleecker was very wrathful, Euan, and Lana's indiscretions madded her....

From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

A father, and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded.

From King Lear by William Shakespeare

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

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

The madding crowd functions differently on this volcanic island, with vistas so jaw-droppingly picturesque, they’re frequently punctuated by social media influencers and soon-to-be brides and grooms, along with their attendant photographers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

But what’s more compelling to the madding crowd and television producers — a strengthened Volcker Rule?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2015

It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady