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rad

[rad] / ræd /






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“Happy Father’s Day to my baby daddy and rad co- parent,” she captioned a pair of family photos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

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

“It’s been pretty rad being able to go up and snowboard in the morning, go out and fish in the afternoon, then go stare at waterfalls for the sunset,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

I hoped to grow up to be at least half as rad as her.

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

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

"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

As he resumed his work, he said, without lifting his eyes: “Seem’ to me ’f I could make myself like any man in dat whole worl’, I radder make myself like Bonaventure.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

"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 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




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