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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

This helps explain how an ingredient called tara flour was able to sicken hundreds of people who consumed French Lentil + Leek Crumbles, a meat replacement product sold by Daily Harvest in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

“There are times, sugah, when you sicken me.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

“Gossip is an evil that destroys social life, sickens people’s hearts and leads to nothing,” the 88-year-old pontiff admonished.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024

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

Caerphilly Bird Rescue posted a comment about the video, saying it "sickens me to the stomach".

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023

The smell clings to my nostrils and sickens my belly.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

The resulting haze has sickened hundreds of thousands in Indonesia and reached as far as Malaysia, Singapore and East Timor.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has sickened over 9,500 people and killed more than 4,600 since May, threatening to eclipse the West Africa outbreak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The outbreak, the largest recorded cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history, sickened nearly 13,000 people across 21 states, hospitalizing 570 and killing two.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

She felt betrayed, and sickened, but did not immediately end the relationship.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The men within it had been battered, thrown about, sickened, made well again, each in his turn.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Indonesia experiences fires every dry season, but this year's blazes have been particularly severe, sickening hundreds of thousands of people locally and spiking air pollution in neighbouring countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The cyclospora outbreak has become the nation’s largest of its kind, sickening thousands of people.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Wildlife officials had found that many of these poisons worked their way through the food chain, sickening and killing owls, raptors, coyotes and mountain lions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

And I would be living within walking distance of a sickening number of farmers markets.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë