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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

He said his parents were "finding it a bit mad" with his dad going back to work as an Uber driver in Cardiff.

From BBC ● 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

This didn’t bother me too much because Mama’s mad spells never did last very long.

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

And I wasn’t sure why, but that made me madder than not shaking Hugo’s hand.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

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

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

The way this season has gone so far, college basketball fans could be in for the maddest March yet.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 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

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

So brooded Elizabeth in her heart, madded with malicious envy and passionate jealousy.

From Beatrice by Henry Rider Haggard

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

As for this Mrs. Hamilton, it madded me to hear of her.

From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"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 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

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