sicken
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The problem with this line is that unvaccinated children can sicken infants and immuno-compromised children who can’t be inoculated, leaving some disabled or worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Microplastics, along with ultra-tiny nanoplastics, can kill or severely sicken marine life before entering the food web and ultimately ending up on our plates.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
Scotland driving at Greece's heart in a bid to sicken them again after sickening them at Hampden earlier in the group.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
These social gatherings were designed to deliberately sicken children to "get it over with" in the days before vaccines existed.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025
If you were to sicken or die, I should be desolate.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Morgan condemned the "mindless vandalism", saying "it is the cost to the community that sickens me the most".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
But the disease would once again become endemic, meaning ever-present at some baseline level, like influenza, which sickens millions and kills thousands in the U.S. every year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Influenza, or flu, sickens millions of people across the globe each year and can lead to severe illness and death.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
“It’s shameful. It’s sickens you to your core.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Faugh! it sickens me to think of it.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The salmonella outbreak overlaps with the nation’s largest-ever cyclospora outbreak, tied to shredded iceberg lettuce, that has sickened thousands of people over the past several weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Residents from across Southeast Los Angeles County said they have been sickened by the constant odor of rotting food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Thomas was sickened by the happiness he’d just felt.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
The cyclospora outbreak has become the nation’s largest of its kind, sickening thousands of people.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Despite the uptick, officials say California is not included in the cyclosporiasis outbreak that’s hit 15 states, sickening tens of thousands of people with prolonged bouts of diarrhea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
And I would be living within walking distance of a sickening number of farmers markets.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Market volatility has erased some funds’ value with sickening speed—most famously 2018’s “Volmageddon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
There was nothing but the dull thunder of the water and a sickening sense of tumbling.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
