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Recent Examples of madhouse But the Vaughns planned Records & Retro to be a cool all-day hang not just a Black Friday-type madhouse. Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 15 Oct. 2022 Michigan football on Saturday beat Ohio State, 45-23 in Columbus for the first time since 2000 and Twitter, understandably, was a madhouse. Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2022 The crowd kept up the energy for 60 minutes, turning the 87,451-seat stadium into a madhouse. Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 13 Nov. 2022 The school year was winding down, which meant tests and grades and the usual madhouse rush. T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for madhouse
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Noun
  • Beer cups flew throughout SoFi Stadium as Jiménez stood tall at the penalty spot admiring the bedlam.
    Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Take Laurent Garnier, who played the song to a gleeful Barcelona crowd shortly after its release, sending them and more than 70,000 viewers into bedlam.
    Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The book, part of Bradbury’s Green Town trilogy, follows two boys who are lured into a mysterious traveling circus that arrives in their hometown.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Just last night, the couple attended the opening of Smash—a smart musical about the making of a bad one—accompanied by their 15-year-old twins, just old enough to brave the celebrity circus with their parents as chaperones.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025

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