mad
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We can’t know for sure, but he may have been mad about her earlier reference to Ossoff—and Ossoff’s to Harp.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Women in this country are rip-roaring mad about the price hikes that they’re absorbing. They’re trying to manage household finances and budgeting. They’re trying to feed their kids healthy food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
One woman got mad and left the chat, another got stranded and a salty side conversation got translated to text and circulated to all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
It opens at Harrenhal on the eve of an infamous tournament that set in motion events leading to the overthrow of King Aerys II Targaryen, the titular mad king.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
If I have a heart attack now, I’m gonna be so mad!
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
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
Ivy started getting madder and madder at the whole thing.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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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
"There was some loose talk of him taking a year out and learning bass, and then us doing a gig and him coming on stage and dropping the maddest bassline anyone's ever seen," he reveals.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
She was probably the maddest I had ever seen her.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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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
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
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
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
Let Hist'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes the madded land.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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
It is rugged and isolated, home to moose and certainly far from the madding crowd.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
If you really want to avoid the madding crowds go offseason.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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