sickness
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Alan Milburn's year-long report, which will be published on Tuesday, will recommend moving under-25s off the main sickness and disability benefits, the Times reported, external.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
This script justifies that lame happy ending with a clever idea about the radiation sickness that results from suffering a blast of the creature’s atomic breath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Disability and sickness payments in the U.K. show how the system sprawls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
There is a very real fear about trying to catch things before they happen, and often, these products are trying to market a cure for a sickness that hasn’t even happened yet.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
And when the religious ceremonies had been completed, we left, my husband and I. How well I remember the day, and the sudden sickness that overcame me when the moment for departure came!
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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So many of the family’s cattle fell ill that she no longer believed the sicknesses were a coincidence.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
"There are sicknesses and we can not find any cure," said 54-year-old Abu Khalil, who has been displaced to Rafah in southern Gaza.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024
Most startling, an additional 1,970 men at one point were hospitalized with sicknesses, including 72 with what was described as “psychoneurosis.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Nearly 30,000 people staying in schools, auditoriums and other evacuation centers worried about infections as cases of COVID-19 and other sicknesses popped up.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
There were always gut sicknesses and fevers sweeping through the camp.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
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