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[mad] / mæd /






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But if a cute little A.I. guy messes up, well, how could you be mad at him?

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

She also asked — again — that L.A. not be mad at her for writing “Ain’t in L.A.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

But its good witchery also contextualizes the quest for sanity in mad times like ours with comforting observations about occultism’s role during eras of social upheaval.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

He added that he was "very mad about it".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Well, I thought as I opened the Cocoon, at least this time Elliot couldn’t be mad about how the letter was written.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"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

In the mad rush to get on the plane first, things are getting even madder.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

The more I thought about anything harming them, the madder I got.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

It was the maddest the sport had gotten in ages at anything that didn’t involve Lane Kiffin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

She called it "the maddest experience. It was just really exciting".

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026

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 thing that makes me maddest of all, that makes me feel like I swallowed a frog, is how right he is.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

As for this Mrs. Hamilton, it madded me to hear of her.

From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

That madded him and he went on from bad to worse, swung right out into wickedness.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

But the critter was after her, too, and it madded him when I fired, I s’pose.”

From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster

Had I but seene thy picture in this plight, It would haue madded me.

From Titus Andronicus 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

If you really want to avoid the madding crowds go offseason.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2019

But what’s more compelling to the madding crowd and television producers — a strengthened Volcker Rule?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2015

It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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