mad

Those letters went out like mad to all kinds of courts that were dealing with standing in environmental cases.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

I gave Gary his senior debut with Portsmouth in the Championship in 1999 and he's a smart lad who was always football mad.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“What a mad, amazing three days,” she recalls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Did the failing person in question want it bad enough that he gave himself permission to get mad?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“That’s what it means. I looked up the word ‘hydrophobia’ in the dictionary and it said very plainly that anything going mad refuses to drink water.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

"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

In the mad rush to get on the plane first, things are getting even madder.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

Even madder than our list of the best TV shows on Netflix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

The more I thought about anything harming them, the madder I got.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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

Looking back on his 25 years in comedy, Bishop said the "maddest thing" was how quickly it had gone and how it had felt like "a parallel life".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 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

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 Claudia's nonsense madded me, though her speech had been no broader than was fashionable among a gentry so closely in touch with London, where speech, and manners, too, were broader still.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But Hanierri madded me; and now he's told Dominie Kirkland's praying Indians, and not one o' them will stir from Tioga—the chicken-hearted knaves!

From The Hidden Children 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

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

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