With March Madness under way and the AMC "Mad Men" premiere scheduled to air this Sunday night, the usage example tracker on our Dictionary page for the word mad is going, well, mad!
Visit mad and you'll see that out in the world, the word mad tends to appear once for every 106 pages of text. (Hover over the word family diagram to reveal this cool fact.) The word madness puts in an appearance once in every 336 pages, on average. But given how references to "Mad Men" and March Madness are flooding our usage example tracker, it's safe to assume that, this week at least, mad words are getting a lot more play.
For tips on getting more out of the usage example tracker, read Real Life Examples Make Words Stick in Your Brain on the Vocabulary.com Blog.