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That kind of hedging is the danger of making friends mad.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

But its good witchery also contextualizes the quest for sanity in mad times like ours with comforting observations about occultism’s role during eras of social upheaval.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

She was nervous that her mom would be mad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

"I have got a pretty mad schedule," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

I was never so mad in all my life.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

"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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

I talked real fast before Momma could get any madder.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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

Theresa said the call was "the maddest experience. It was just really exciting".

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 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

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

I told Josiah what he said about him, for it madded me, but Josiah took it cool.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

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 Octave Thanet

For Mrs. Bleecker was very wrathful, Euan, and Lana's indiscretions madded her....

From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

That madded him and he went on from bad to worse, swung right out into wickedness.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

Had I but seen thy picture in this plight It would have madded me: what shall I do Now I behold thy lively body so?

From The Tragedy of 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

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

It is rugged and isolated, home to moose and certainly far from the madding crowd.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021

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

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady