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
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
Tim O’Reilly, a media writer in Chicago, says that if he didn’t come to a streaming service with a title already in mind, the search would be a madhouse.
From Salon ● May 22, 2025
Mr Acciardo described the scene as a "madhouse" when first responders arrived.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
“You should get some ice for your face, too. So everyone’s waking up now. It’s a madhouse out there.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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
Not at all, argued Klee in 1911; it was right under your modern nose -- in kindergartens and madhouses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somewhere among the madhouses of Europe there is a lunatic.
From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell
