mad

“Everyone’s gone mad for the capybara,” Paddick says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The man is Paul, who does not know how he has come to be in this world but finds himself hunted by a mad duke who wants his magical technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Caroline Glennon, head teacher at St Patrick's CE Primary Academy in Solihull, says her school will show the highlights or the full game on Monday morning for her "World Cup mad" students.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

It’s tempting to portray competition in the quantum space as a mad dash, akin to the high-stakes sprints to commercialize cloud compute and artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

It was coming out now, and I was mad.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

"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

But I don’t think they have been, and I’ve been trying to unpack why I often feel madder after scrolling than I ever did on Twitter.

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2025

Depending on how things go, the situation might get even madder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

As usual, the only thing their arguing did was make them both madder.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

She called it "the maddest experience. It was just really exciting".

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026

Among those: a sticker bearing the “Why not us?” mantra defining the maddest of March moments here in decades.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

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

She was probably the maddest I had ever seen her.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

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

It madded Josiah dretfully, and he sez, "I feel it my duty as a deacon to go and give in my testimony and break up such wicked doin's."

From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Holley, Marietta

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

From Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare, William

Well, I was going on to get off a few more things I'd got madded up to, but I caught the look in poor Hetty's face, and it would have melted a stone.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

Look you, Johnson himself could lodge the fury in his responsible breast: And dubious title shakes the madded land.

From Hearts of Controversy 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

That’s the kind of iron will you can develop after a couple of decades living by yourself, far from the madding crowd.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2020

If you really want to avoid the madding crowds go offseason.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2019

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

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady