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It opens at Harrenhal on the eve of an infamous tournament that set in motion events leading to the overthrow of King Aerys II Targaryen, the titular mad king.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Over the past two weeks, the mad scramble for upside exposure in the U.S. equities market has been a sight to behold, according to Nomura’s Charlie McElligott.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Half-time at a football game is normally a chance to grab a drink or snack, make a mad dash for the toilets or vent with friends about some questionable refereeing or defending.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

I smiled and said, “I don’t know what you’re saying, Jimbo, but whatever it is, it sounds all right to me. Just don’t get mad now and everything will be all right.”

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

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

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

She grows a dye garden of rarer plants like indigo and madder, along with marigold flowers, sunflower seeds and mushrooms.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Even madder than our list of the best TV shows on Netflix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

He was still mad at X-Ray, but he was even madder at himself.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

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

The way this season has gone so far, college basketball fans could be in for the maddest March yet.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

"There was some loose talk of him taking a year out and learning bass, and then us doing a gig and him coming on stage and dropping the maddest bassline anyone's ever seen," he reveals.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022

And now as I came up on her back porch, Aunt Loma was the maddest white woman you ever saw.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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 Harry Leon Wilson

So brooded Elizabeth in her heart, madded with malicious envy and passionate jealousy.

From Beatrice by Henry Rider Haggard

But Hanierri madded me; and now he's told Dominie Kirkland's praying Indians, and not one o' them will stir from Tioga—the chicken-hearted knaves!

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

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 Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

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

From Hearts of Controversy by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

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

This is a crowded sports market, even with the Sonics gone for a decade and a half, and standing out from the madding crowd isn’t easy.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023

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