- a variation of sic.
sick
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During these sessions, he also distributes photos taken while he was sick to help convince residents that Ebola is real.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
“When you are really sick, and the only other alternative is death, people frequently change their minds,” says Meier, who founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
A massive — but sick and emaciated — fin whale died Thursday after it became beached in Santa Cruz, according to city officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
If you’ve ever hidden how sick you are, then remission can turn you into the boy who didn’t cry wolf.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
He felt sick, as if his guts were being pulled loose.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Raad was the sicker of the two - his ribs visible and his chest heaving as he took rapid, shallow breaths.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I was getting sicker and sicker,” he told People.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
She described the vets in the study as older and sicker than the general public.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
When Michael Borg, town manager of North Attleborough, Mass., saw that its insurance costs had triggered a $1.8 million deficit, he assumed the town’s employees must be getting sicker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
I felt paler and sicker and exhausted, like I’d pushed something out of me, and now all I wanted to do was sleep.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
Some dissuaded even the sickest patients from taking medication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
To be in a cosy rut is about the sickest thing ever, I think.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Those potential costs led many state Medicaid programs and some health plans to restrict coverage of the drug to the sickest patients.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
It's a situation akin to removing the "sickest patients" from hospitals and placing them in backstreet clinics, according to Anders Bach-Mortensen, an associate professor of social care at Roskilde University.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
“We’re the sickest rapping duo in Wales,” Worm said.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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