madhouse
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The team was undecided on how well Mellencamp’s biggest hits—sepia-tinted odes to small-town America—fit today’s college football madhouse cathedrals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The follow-up continues this kookiness with a madhouse spoof of Hallmark holiday saccharine in which a woodpile becomes a homicidal monster.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
With the tying run at second base and none out in the ninth inning, he was the calm in a screaming madhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
Mr Acciardo described the scene as a "madhouse" when first responders arrived.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Plus, I hiked alone to get our Sunday bread because Lolo said he was feeling too tired, and then I watched the twins while Tía worked the Sunday madhouse at El Caribe.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
The burnt-orange and Sooner-red halves of the Cotton Bowl had alternated as madhouses.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2021
“The incarceration of freethinking healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2018
It would be a total madhouse but, remembering the previous total madhouses, you could go: OK, we just have to hold out for another 15 minutes and it will recede.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013
A best-selling personal history, it drew the nation's attention to the primitive brutality of its madhouses, led to reforms that helped many unbalanced minds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah! when I think of the sufferings shut up in madhouses, and hospital wards, I am revolted, and inclined to doubt everything.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
