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madden

[mad-n] / ˈmæd n /


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Written and directed by the Australian actor Frances O’Connor, making a vibrant feature filmmaking debut, it will surely madden sticklers for accuracy, which is all to the good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Not the least of Michael’s gifts is the ability to madden other minds.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2018

The glacier-paced interactions of the actors here may initially madden you; by the end, the sense of the oppressive weight that controls their motions breaks your heart.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2016

The numb wait is their negotiating style: a heavy, frozen, wordless impassivity designed to madden and exhaust the people across the table.

From Time Magazine Archive

They must have been things meant not to quiet it but to madden it.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

They're lashing out at the idea of competence that maddens them.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025

Francis has a tendency for making off-the-cuff public remarks, a trait that maddens both supporters and critics alike.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

Bungling Inspector Clouseau once again seeks the Pink Panther diamond and maddens his boss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2019

Nothing is ever certain with Klinsmann, whose unpredictability maddens U.S. supporters and catches his own players off guard.

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2016

He despairs of us, all of us, including the model, whose surreptitious gum chewing maddens him.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

De Gaulle maddened his British hosts, and particularly Churchill, with his ceaseless complaints and ingratitude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Except Paul isn’t magic; she waves her red flags high and proud, and the good folks at ABC, Hulu and Disney charged at them with the oblivious desperation of so many trapped, maddened bulls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

Local officials around the state say they have been similarly maddened.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2021

The pope’s penchant for speaking in an off-the-cuff manner has maddened not only supporters and critics, but also his staff in the Roman bureaucracy.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2020

In the suffocating cabin, maddened by the vibration of the metal plates and the unbearable stench of the mud stirred up by the paddle wheel, Meme lost track of the days.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A new documentary is reviving the stirring if maddening voyage of the “Mighty Mary,” a groundbreaking America’s Cup crew undermined by one of the most baffling backroom deals in sports history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

He’s said that Cobra and Chico’s business “suffered an immediate loss,” a maddening new blow after the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Zwick: The book has a bunch of cool stories that are fun to read, inspiring in a lot of cases, and sometimes maddening.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

I’ve come to think of it as a practical, action-oriented cousin of intuitive eating, a framework I find genuinely generous but occasionally maddening in its abstraction.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

The next hour was a mix of maddening rushing around, then equally maddening waiting.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner




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