mad
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She just isn’t doing her job and is mad at me.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Even amid the era’s accelerating glam rock movement, “Rocky Horror” pushed the boundaries of mainstream pop culture as an outré musical about a mad scientist with a theme song called “Sweet Transvestite.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Parton also said she had fans on both side of the aisle "and I don’t want to make any of them mad at me."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
That was what I got so mad at them about: Come on, guys.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Mom will be mad if I go near the road without a growned-up,” a small voice said.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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"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 didn’t know if I was madder at the coach for playing with my mind or madder at myself for letting him play with it.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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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
An upside of the upsets: perhaps the maddest March ever.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
This NFL season had one of the maddest scrambles to the playoffs that I can remember in all my years covering the league.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
Josie couldn’t even tell which specific scene he was talking about, or which awful thing one of them had done to the other she felt maddest or guiltiest about.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Let Hist'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes the madded land.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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
Had I but seene thy picture in this plight, It would haue madded me.
From Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
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
A father, and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded.
From King Lear 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
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
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