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[rad] / ræd /






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“We believe in respect, kindness, and love. We are huge fans of other women-owned companies, LGBTQIA+ communities, and rad men’s companies too. None of that feels political to us,” she said.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2024

She even got down and did some pretty rad splits on this long-forgotten sad carpet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

To see a young Galadriel as this kind of warrior was rad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

Madisynn drops into our lives by way of a "diff dimensh" otherwise known as a hellscape, which she navigates like any other rad party, or her hometown of Fort Lauderdale.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022

I’m not going to hop in unless there’s something really rad.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

Skateboarding, once a skill practiced mostly by becalmed surfers and, later, a teen fad, has entered its third phase, bigger, badder, radder and more streetwise than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he resumed his work, he said, without lifting his eyes: “Seem’ to me ’f I could make myself like any man in dat whole worl’, I radder make myself like Bonaventure.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

"Beoples might radder haf deir landts for nuttin', dan bay rents for dem."

From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

I'd radder go to hell on my knees backward dan tech de fust drap ob dat.

From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

"Great deal radder be out dan be in here."

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Hunter Burgan of AFI was brought out and introduced as not only “one of the raddest bass players ever ripping” but also “a mean sax player.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

"Rez Dogs" also has the raddest soundtrack on television, the result of Harjo's eclectic taste and his penchant for upending expectations.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022

The Rockets always have some the raddest alternate unis in the NBA, but throw Beyoncé’s Tim Burton-shaming cavalcade of costume designers into the mix, and you can expect some serious fireworks.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 1, 2017

I was 10 years old when my brother handed me Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” with the endorsement that it was “probably the raddest story ever.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2016

“This is the raddest thing ever,” I said.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez




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