sic
Example Sentences
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The sic of it all is worth a little attention.
From Slate • Nov. 14, 2025
Also, if you don’t give Alan Ruck a nomination for his bittersweet turn as billionaire bloviator Connor Roy, I’m gonna sic the Conheads on you.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023
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
Whatever the substance of his personal feud with Mitchell may be, it comes shortly after his attempt to sic his followers on a journalist after being duped by a fake Twitter account.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2021
“Ye must forget sic things. Ye maun summon up your powers to what is difficult. Will ye do that?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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