- present participle of sicken.
sickening
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Indonesia experiences fires every dry season, but this year's blazes have been particularly severe, sickening hundreds of thousands of people locally and spiking air pollution in neighbouring countries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
The cyclospora outbreak has become the nation’s largest of its kind, sickening thousands of people.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Wildlife officials had found that many of these poisons worked their way through the food chain, sickening and killing owls, raptors, coyotes and mountain lions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a frequent critic of the food industry, which he has blamed for sickening Americans with ultraprocessed foods and chemicals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
As days and nights passed in this terrifying, sickening fashion, they forgot their mother, because only Now mattered for them.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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