mad dash

noun

: a wild and uncontrolled rush
In his mad dash to the store, he forgot his wallet.

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The demo didn't offer much puzzle variety, and the mad dash to solve them seemed the most effective method for defeating enemies despite damage-enhancing power-ups. Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 The incident echoes one in 2021, when a flaw in another Microsoft product, the email program Exchange, allowed a similar mad dash of hacking. Kevin Collier, NBC news, 22 July 2025 That set off a mad dash for Hyppolite, who visited with a number of teams suddenly interested at a pretty late stage in the process. Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025 But while Pagán barely beat the throw home — injuring his hamstring in the process — Bailey’s mad dash was more of an inevitability. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for mad dash

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“Mad dash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mad%20dash. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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