mad
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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
"We've had to revise our opinions and our thoughts because of the coastal erosion, but it's not something we think about every day - you would go mad otherwise," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
“It is infectious to play a character who sees the best in people and isn’t mad at the world for all its foibles and bullies and shadows,” Sudeikis recently told the Hollywood Reporter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
“The boy gets really mad at his family, right?” she begins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The last thing in the world that I wanted to do was to make Jimbo mad.
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
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
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
“The madder they got, the better he liked it,” Greenberg remembered.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
This NFL season had one of the maddest scrambles to the playoffs that I can remember in all my years covering the league.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
She was probably the maddest I had ever seen her.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
As for this Mrs. Hamilton, it madded me to hear of her.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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 Shakespeare, William
She madded me first: what else when she wouldn't believe a word I said?
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George
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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
"The madded land" is a phrase intended to prove that the law-giver of taste, Johnson himself, could lodge the fury in his breast when opportunity occurred.
From Flower of the Mind by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
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
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
It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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