maniac
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Walking and typing is dangerous, but walking and talking like a maniac into my own recorder is merely antisocial.
From Slate ● May 24, 2026
I’m more aficionado than maniac, but I find them endlessly listenable, rewatchable — they just look great, for one thing — and interesting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
“And I’m not some crazed maniac set out to destroy this nation.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
This isn't just about Hitler being a genocidal maniac, though that really should be reason enough.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023
That his protege should turn out to be a maniac!
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
As an ordinary man thrust into a world of monsters and maniacs, Neill is inherently playing with ideas about art and celebrity that reflect his own career.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Along with driving like maniacs, F1 is much about branding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
The sorrow and anger repressed within him are as fearsome as the cinematic zombies, ghouls and homicidal maniacs that have seized his imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
“Even maniacs and serial killers serving life sentences have the right to receive a visit, but I don’t,” Mr. Navalny wrote on Twitter.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Then it’s all raining down on us as we embrace one another and dance like maniacs.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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It's Madness!: Mania
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