mad
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And can anyone be mad at you if you do?
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 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
"There were times where mad storms were happening, when they were filming, like it was kind of crazy, rain, hail and snow," Smyth said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Their 2-year-old son was mad at his mom for bringing home more children, Craft said, but has been warming up to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
I was mad at you, so I took her side, even after Oliver tried to tell me differently.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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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
“The more I looked at it, the madder I got,” he recalled.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Even madder than our list of the best TV shows on Netflix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
The more I thought about what Holly’d said, the madder I got, until that simmer reached a rolling boil.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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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
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
And now as I came up on her back porch, Aunt Loma was the maddest white woman you ever saw.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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
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
That madded Josiah and he said they kep’ it back because they wuz clost and wanted to save.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley
For Mrs. Bleecker was very wrathful, Euan, and Lana's indiscretions madded her....
From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Had I but seene thy picture in this plight, It would haue madded me.
From Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
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
If you really want to avoid the madding crowds go offseason.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
Far from the madding crowd, we experienced Oahu’s spectacular beauty in, on and around the water.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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