mad
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“That was where we learned about how to help someone that was being bullied and what to do if you feel really mad or sad at school,” said the young girl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Let’s assume that if you’re reading this far, you already know the first movie’s big twist: the real killer wasn’t Jason Voorhees, but his mad mama.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
The situation that we wanted to sustain throughout the season was she’s not doing these things because she got shot, her stomach hurts and she’s mad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Children, so mad about rugby league that they will fashion a ball out of anything they can find, run alongside the team bus, eager to catch a glimpse of their heroes.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Sort of. I was mad about him too.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
Depending on how things go, the situation might get even madder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
She grows a dye garden of rarer plants like indigo and madder, along with marigold flowers, sunflower seeds and mushrooms.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
As usual, the only thing their arguing did was make them both madder.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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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
She was probably the maddest I had ever seen her.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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Had I but seen thy picture in this plight It would have madded me: what shall I do Now I behold thy lively body so?
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Look you, Johnson himself could lodge the fury in his responsible breast: And dubious title shakes the madded land.
From Hearts of Controversy by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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
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
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
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
This is a crowded sports market, even with the Sonics gone for a decade and a half, and standing out from the madding crowd isn’t easy.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
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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