sicken
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So it’s in our best interest to study and monitor anything that can spread quickly and sicken or kill folks.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
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
I averred that I mended, though others sicken.
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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I'm a massive fan of Unai Emery but the Ollie Watkins thing sickens you a bit, he was really let down by his striker last week.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
In the U.S. alone, the bug sickens thousands and kills hundreds every year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 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
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The E. coli 0157 outbreak has sickened at least nine children, the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
"I am appalled and sickened by Brand's actions and have co-operated fully and voluntarily with the investigation and endeavoured to assist as best I can," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Thousands of Indonesians protested in Jakarta and other cities Wednesday against economic hardship, graft and the government's handling of devastating wildfires emitting a toxic haze that has sickened thousands.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Produce supplier Taylor Farms is stopping iceberg lettuce sales from central Mexico between May 1 and Aug. 31, starting next year, after a widespread cyclospora outbreak sickened thousands in the U.S.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I ate when I did not want to eat, drank milk when it sickened me.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Indonesian schoolchildren prayed for rain on Thursday as another firefighter lost his life battling drought-fuelled blazes consuming forests and peatlands and blanketing parts of Southeast Asia in a sickening haze.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The cyclospora outbreak has become the nation’s largest of its kind, sickening thousands of people.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a frequent critic of the food industry, which he has blamed for sickening Americans with ultraprocessed foods and chemicals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
And I would be living within walking distance of a sickening number of farmers markets.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
As days and nights passed in this terrifying, sickening fashion, they forgot their mother, because only Now mattered for them.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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