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madness

[mad-nis] / ˈmæd nɪs /


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"If I wanted to go to London, which is where the majority of my work is, and I had to stop every hour, I couldn't get to work. It's just madness."

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Yet in this staging the madness works on multiple levels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Donning my academic editor title, I imagined myself tasked with the act of tidying, turning teenage madness, drama, beauty into writing that is still dramatic and beautiful—just grammatically correct.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

When he tries to eject her into space, she simply reappears, leaving the crew unsure whether they’re being studied, judged or driven toward madness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

I mean, there is anger and frustrated anger or anger mixed with fear or anger mixed with only slightly diluted rabid madness, and he was all of them, way past all of them.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen




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