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That kind of hedging is the danger of making friends mad.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I got mad at myself because I knew I was better than that,” Díaz said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

On the TV series “Twisted Metal,” she doubled for a male mad scientist and was thrown through a glass window, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

And none of us enjoy — none of us wants to be mad at the person that lives across from us.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

“If you assumed he knew, then why would you have to tell him? Were you just trying to get back in his good graces so he was only mad at one of us?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

"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

You can't be any madder at us than I am...

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

Depending on how things go, the situation might get even madder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

She grows a dye garden of rarer plants like indigo and madder, along with marigold flowers, sunflower seeds and mushrooms.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Cully lost the vertical stripes of his first year’s plumage and became greyer, grimmer, madder, and distinguished by smart horizontal ban where the long stripes had been.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Looking back on his 25 years in comedy, Bishop said the "maddest thing" was how quickly it had gone and how it had felt like "a parallel life".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

Among those: a sticker bearing the “Why not us?” mantra defining the maddest of March moments here in decades.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

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

And now as I came up on her back porch, Aunt Loma was the maddest white woman you ever saw.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

This curs'd old Thief, no doubt, will give us Trouble, Provok'd and madded at his cool Reception.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Montrose Jonas Moses

I told Josiah what he said about him, for it madded me, but Josiah took it cool.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

It madded Josiah dretfully, and he sez, "I feel it my duty as a deacon to go and give in my testimony and break up such wicked doin's."

From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

But Claudia's nonsense madded me, though her speech had been no broader than was fashionable among a gentry so closely in touch with London, where speech, and manners, too, were broader still.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But Hanierri madded me; and now he's told Dominie Kirkland's praying Indians, and not one o' them will stir from Tioga—the chicken-hearted knaves!

From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

It is rugged and isolated, home to moose and certainly far from the madding crowd.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021

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