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madcaps

noun

plural of madcap

as in devils

a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear an incorrigible madcap who loves drag racing and white-water rafting

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The 152 rooms celebrate Tasmania’s cultural and creative spirit, from the contemporary paintings of thylacines and Tasmanian devils, to the Blackheart sassafras ceiling inlays.

— Riley Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026
But there are lots of potential devils in the details (otherwise there’d be little need for experimental reactors).

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026

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Top-name cowboys competed in the three days of bronc riding, bull dogging, bull riding and calf riding.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
The move to North Main Street brought more Stockyards visitors and cowboys headed to Billy Bob’s Texas or the coliseum rodeos.

— Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026

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While running with bulls is a cherished local custom for Spanish daredevils, Americans are still the leading group of foreigners who run at the San Fermin festival.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
On July 1, Russian daredevils climbed to the tip of the building's spire before getting engaged, and then arrested.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026

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Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.

— William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
But there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025

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