as in bedlam
a place of uproar or confusion
our house is always a madhouse on school mornings, with five kids and two dogs running around
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Recent Examples of madhouse
Michigan football on Saturday beat Ohio State, 45-23 in Columbus for the first time since 2000 and Twitter, understandably, was a madhouse.
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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
Life around the office, which included a basketball court and beer on tap, was a preview of the headquarters-as-madhouse ethos soon to dominate Silicon Valley.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
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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
Life around the office, which included a basketball court and beer on tap, was a preview of the headquarters-as-madhouse ethos soon to dominate Silicon Valley.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for madhouse
Noun
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Just as much bedlam erupted here at Weird and Wild World HQ.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
22 Aug. 2025
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Their journey to the Comiskey concert was typical of the bedlam that accompanied their performances.—
Michael Peregrine,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Perhaps more than ever, Hayes is the circus master of his untamable mind, a seemingly endless source of ear-worm melodies and ingenious wordplay.—
Nancy Kruh,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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Páez held up a megaphone to live up to the circus energy of the song.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Madhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madhouse. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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