- a variation of sic.
sick
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“They told his baby’s mom he felt sick earlier in the day and died in medical.”
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some 16,000 Americans with sickle-cell disease are sick enough to qualify for these treatments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
At first glance, he thought he was looking at a specimen that had been sick or injured rather than a new species.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Michigan health officials now believe that most people got sick in late June or early July, and that the contaminated lettuce is no longer available.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Only a month or two before this, Marlene’s mother had become sick, and had died quite suddenly.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Payments are adjusted for medical risk factors, so insurers are paid more to cover sicker beneficiaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
In the current system, premiums are calculated by assessing the full pool of enrollees, including those who are older and sicker and tend to spend more on medical care.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026
But Rosie got sicker and a biopsy showed in 2024 that she did have terminal cancer.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Those who lose health insurance will skip medications and primary care and subsequently get sicker and end up in the emergency room, explained Goel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
And so they got sicker, this time in the head.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Bed-and-breakfast hotels turned into cheap boardinghouses, attracting Britain’s sickest and poorest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
As a result of declaring the critical incident, the trust will now rearrange some elective procedures to create capacity for the sickest patients.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
Carr called Kimmel’s comments “the sickest conduct possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
The late-night host’s comments, Carr said, were “the sickest conduct possible.”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
Dan Dalgard, wearing a respirator and a jumpsuit, selected four sick monkeys for sacrifice, the ones he thought looked the sickest.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
