mad about
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But to be surprised that people were mad about the ordeal is hilarious.
From Slate
Wildly different genres will compete for that award, which pits "Hamnet" against commercial success "Bridget Jones, Mad About the Boy" and biographical film "I Swear".
From Barron's
A month later, during an appearance on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast, Murphy characterized the response as an “odd choice to be mad about your relative that you really don’t remember.”
“I might have told you one thing back when I was 27 years old, and I left hot headed and mad about what I considered to be irreconcilable personality problems or whatever,” Brown said of his departure from Cake in a 2021 Billboard feature about the band.
From Los Angeles Times
“We are kids. Besides, would you really send me back out there when my brother’s still mad about his baseball? Let me stay a little longer and I’ll show you how to pretend. You might like it.”
From Literature
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