mad about
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“We’re sitting at the beach, and my dad asked me how much I weighed, and I was so mad about it,” Freid remembers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
This is not a newsletter that gets mad about people having a meeting.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Women in this country are rip-roaring mad about the price hikes that they’re absorbing. They’re trying to manage household finances and budgeting. They’re trying to feed their kids healthy food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
The boneheaded prediction is a sports hack’s loyal companion, and the reliable move is to ignore it, carry on, hope we all get mad about some other nonsense and forget it happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
“Connor thinks everything’s impossible for him, and he’s all mad about it, so he tried to act like everything’s impossible for me, too. He’s being a big baby and feeling sorry for himself.”
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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