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And I was like, that’s a rad name.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Here are three potential itineraries for three different kinds of rad dads: those who love the great outdoors, fall head over heels for food and dig the arts.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

Also: How Liquid Death made water rad as hell, and the uncertain fate of TikTok in America.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

Madisynn drops into our lives by way of a "diff dimensh" otherwise known as a hellscape, which she navigates like any other rad party, or her hometown of Fort Lauderdale.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022

“You’ve been here a fraction of the time everyone else has, but you’ve gotten pretty much double the amount of litter off the streets. Pretty rad, Fern.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Skateboarding, once a skill practiced mostly by becalmed surfers and, later, a teen fad, has entered its third phase, bigger, badder, radder and more streetwise than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Great deal radder be out dan be in here."

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

"Beoples might radder haf deir landts for nuttin', dan bay rents for dem."

From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

"I'd a heap sight radder hab soffin' t' eat," said Washington, when it was made known that they were to retire.

From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Roy Rockwood

I'd radder go to hell on my knees backward dan tech de fust drap ob dat.

From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

Hunter Burgan of AFI was brought out and introduced as not only “one of the raddest bass players ever ripping” but also “a mean sax player.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

"Rez Dogs" also has the raddest soundtrack on television, the result of Harjo's eclectic taste and his penchant for upending expectations.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022

The Rockets always have some the raddest alternate unis in the NBA, but throw Beyoncé’s Tim Burton-shaming cavalcade of costume designers into the mix, and you can expect some serious fireworks.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 1, 2017

I was 10 years old when my brother handed me Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” with the endorsement that it was “probably the raddest story ever.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2016

“This is the raddest thing ever,” I said.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez