stricken
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Stricken with grief, he drifted for a while, finding work in the Californian oilfields - before travelling to Paris and Florence, where he studied art.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025
Stricken with a brain tumor, Engel couldn’t speak, so instead of “aye” he pointed to his eye to signify his vote and cement the landmark legislation’s passage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2023
Stricken in one arm, she cradles the baby, proclaims him "a great king ... born unto Israel," and is cured.
From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2022
How, for instance, to reconcile the silken ease and beauty of countertenor Clifton Massey’s performance of the aria “Von den Stricken meiner Sünden” against the discomfort of its central ask in this context?
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2021
Stricken, he took in the pages on the wall, their cryptic lines drawn to depict oscillations in the voice, cries and dips lost to both of us.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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