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sicken

[sik-uhn] / ˈsɪk ən /


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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

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

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

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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