stricken
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"The doctors tried to help her but she died," her stricken grandmother says the next day.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Better equipped to mother Boy No. 2 or stricken with learned helplessness from being coddled by an expert on my phone day in and day out?
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
Evacuations were taking place Wednesday from a cruise ship stricken with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, the World Health Organization said, as experts confirmed a rare strain that can be transmitted between humans.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Michael Jackson is stricken on the eve of a comeback tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
He was staring and trembling and his great size seemed only to add to his air of stricken misery.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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