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[mad] / mæd /






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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

"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

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

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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