mad
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"Because you can see our cameras, it's easier to get mad," Langley said.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
It opens at Harrenhal on the eve of an infamous tournament that set in motion events leading to the overthrow of King Aerys II Targaryen, the titular mad king.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“It is infectious to play a character who sees the best in people and isn’t mad at the world for all its foibles and bullies and shadows,” Sudeikis recently told the Hollywood Reporter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
He was mad then and he’s still mad now.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Wonderfully, incredibly, miraculously he has somehow gotten two chocolate chip cookies through that mad night without breaking them.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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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
You can't be any madder at us than I am...
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
But I don’t think they have been, and I’ve been trying to unpack why I often feel madder after scrolling than I ever did on Twitter.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2025
In the mad rush to get on the plane first, things are getting even madder.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
No one came near me in those days; the maids’ hands shook when they served my food, which only made me madder.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Theresa said the call was "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
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
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
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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
Had I but seen thy picture in this plight It would have madded me: what shall I do Now I behold thy lively body so?
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
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
It madded me to pine here, making rhymes, while outside the sweet wind whispered: "Come out, Michael—come out into the green delight!"
From Cardigan 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
If you really want to avoid the madding crowds go offseason.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
Far from the madding crowd, we experienced Oahu’s spectacular beauty in, on and around the water.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
It was exactly the madding crowd that Bobby wished would stay afar.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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