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“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

“These are sounds that can make you go mad, apparently,” Morton, 49, tells me, reclining on her bed at the Hotel Chelsea in New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

He was mad then and he’s still mad now.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

"I just couldn't believe. It was like going to Madame Tussauds but the wax was animated and you could interact with the wax and it talked back to you, it was absolutely mad."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Because try as I might, I couldn’t find a way to be mad at just Regan and ignore the fact that I was the one who picked up that letter in the hall.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"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

You can't be any madder at us than I am...

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 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

He was madder than I'd seen him in a long time.

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson

"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

An upside of the upsets: perhaps the maddest March ever.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 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

The boss hadn't no righd to let you go———" "Yes, he had, I madded him first; I was a fool.

From Stories of a Western Town by Thanet, Octave

Had I but seene thy picture in this plight, It would haue madded me.

From Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare, William

But the critter was after her, too, and it madded him when I fired, I s’pose.”

From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by Foster, W. Bertram

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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

Take such a phrase as "the madded land"; there, indeed, is a word coined by the noble rage as the last century evoked it.

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

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

But what’s more compelling to the madding crowd and television producers — a strengthened Volcker Rule?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2015

It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady