mad
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"It was pretty much every scene or every part I was doing they were in there as well, which was kind of mad."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Adria Arjona stars in Adam Wingard’s flimsy action feature about a woman facing down a group of rampaging, programmable fighters that have escaped from a mad doctor’s lab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
She just isn’t doing her job and is mad at me.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
This is not a newsletter that gets mad about people having a meeting.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside it.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
"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
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
Even madder than our list of the best TV shows on Netflix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
I was mad at myself but even madder at Dad.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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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
The thing that makes me maddest of all, that makes me feel like I swallowed a frog, is how right he is.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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Take such a word as “madded”—“the madded land”; there indeed is a word created for the noble rage, as the eighteenth century understood it.
From Hearts of Controversy by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
To think of it madded me, because Mr. Fonda had three wealthy sons living near him, who could care for him properly with their ample means and all their servants and slaves.
From The Little Red Foot 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
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 William Shakespeare
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
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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