sic
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They set little traps for Hunham’s arrogance and sic their daddies on the administrators, who then bear down on him.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Max doesn't sic goblins on his little sister but he does drag her along on his quest to impress Allison and banish the risen Sanderson sisters.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022
I’ll sic Houston on opponents until opponents seem to say, Just get me out of here and let me go home.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
If it didn’t get its $51,000, the company warned, it would sic debt collectors on the family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
After leaping from the balcony Booth will stand tall and, in his best actor’s voice, pronounce the Latin phrase sic semper tyrannis—thus always to tyrants.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
Less rote, but also well within genre expectations, is the title story, narrated by the youngest member of a family that makes cursed objects and sics one of them on a greedy villain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
But if I keep on tacklin' all the odd jobs she sics me on to, I'll be able to qualify pretty soon as a boss carpenter, a master plumber, and an expert electrician.
From The House of Torchy by Arthur William Brown
This put him in conflict with Shaw, who had once overseen the hospital, and who sicced health inspectors on Clinton’s cafeterias.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
Though we see Joanna Strange, the company’s first whistleblower, her appearance is brief — and the documentary doesn’t mention that WeWork sued her, and even sicced the FBI on her.
From The Verge ● Apr. 2, 2021
Later, Weinstein sicced his lawyers on news organizations, trying to prevent publication of negative stories.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2017
As for me: Before I sicced the Scooba on my apartment, I had previously mopped exactly zero times.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2014
“I wanted to be Lissa’s friend, but she was afraid of me. She sicced the dog on me. Why was she scared? What’s wrong with me, Georgie?”
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Taylor Fresh had just last month voluntarily recalled imported contaminated lettuce from a grower in Central Mexico that was linked to a cyclosporiasis outbreak that affected 15 states and sicked tens of thousands of people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
At least 14 sea lions were reported sicked off the coast of Malibu due to toxins created by harmful algal blooms, according to the California Wildlife Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
Lifespan President and CEO Timothy Babineau said officials determined the restrictions are the “most prudent thing to do” in light of the new coronavirus that’s sicked tens of thousands globally.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2020
The pursuing posse took down the sad-faced dogs, again sicked them on the trail.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don’t doubt a minute but he let thet bull out and sicked him on me.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Perhaps Cook can buy Ternus time by siccing Apple’s lawyers on a top AI rival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
No longer would each try to gain an edge by siccing governments and agencies on the other.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
The magazine’s official account tweeted an actually-quite-flattering caricature of Cliffe, with the message that she’d been put on something called #TheNewPuritansList for being “our favorite Mean Mommie” and siccing “mobs” on people.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2018
What seems less clear is what, in siccing the Sparrows on Loras, her endgame was supposed to be in the first place.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2015
All the same, he disliked going to cops like Bill Koontz for help or advice because that usually meant he wound up siccing them on his own people.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
That might not stop the labels from sicking their lawyers on the site now that its popularity is growing.
From Forbes ● Jun. 21, 2011
Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where had he been all this time, anyway!—and her nearly out of her head thinkin' this rotten woman downstairs was sicking the Board o' Health on to her!
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
And I seen he was sicking his intellects onto the job of making her pay.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
His whole manner was that of a boy who, although making no sound, might be "sicking" one dog on another.
From At Whispering Pine Lodge by Lawrence J. Leslie
