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madman

[mad-man, -muhn] / ˈmædˌmæn, -mən /


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“I knew the second that I poked my head up from my exile, I was probably going to be met by some madman charging at me with an ax,” Nuzzi said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

"Bibi acted like a madman," a White House official told the news website Axios.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2025

But heavy metal’s favorite madman leaves us with his reminder that “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll.”

From Slate Jul. 25, 2025

Not only did she work with Murphy, perhaps television’s most reliable madman, but she collaborated with some of the most prestigious directors working today.

From Salon Dec. 16, 2024

I apologized like a madman, because the band was starting a fast one.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

He’d minnowed through sunburned madmen on winding Alpine passes.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

Yohji is one of fashion’s great madmen and I wanted to take the trousers to someone who would look at it as a job and not a bizarre art piece.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2024

Things got pretty weird on the food scene, too, with the R&D labs for the nation’s fast-food chains seemingly overtaken by Frankensteinian madmen.

From Washington Post Mar. 7, 2023

There are few more efficient ways to unleash the demons, madmen, and ghosts hidden in the darkest crevices of the human psyche than to inject anxiety into our imaginations.

From Salon Oct. 23, 2022

“We had a fight, Jeth, about an hour ago. We fit like two madmen, I guess.”

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt




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