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The problem with this line is that unvaccinated children can sicken infants and immuno-compromised children who can’t be inoculated, leaving some disabled or worse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Microplastics, along with ultra-tiny nanoplastics, can kill or severely sicken marine life before entering the food web and ultimately ending up on our plates.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

Scotland driving at Greece's heart in a bid to sicken them again after sickening them at Hampden earlier in the group.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

For instance, Peterson and his daughter hype an all-meat diet, which would sicken any person who actually tried to follow it.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024

Then: “What’s the matter?” he asked her; and felt the heart within him sicken.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Domoic acid is a toxin produced by algae and typically sickens animals that feed on open-ocean fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Gossip is an evil that destroys social life, sickens people’s hearts and leads to nothing,” the 88-year-old pontiff admonished.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024

Influenza, or flu, sickens millions of people across the globe each year and can lead to severe illness and death.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024

Caerphilly Bird Rescue posted a comment about the video, saying it "sickens me to the stomach".

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023

The smell clings to my nostrils and sickens my belly.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

The outbreak, the largest recorded cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history, sickened nearly 13,000 people across 21 states, hospitalizing 570 and killing two.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

The blazes in Indonesia have burned through hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest and plantations, sickened local residents and sent thick haze across the region.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Person-to-person spread of pneumonic plague hasn’t been documented in the U.S. since 1924, according to the CDC, but there have been rare cases among people exposed to cats that were sickened by eating infected rodents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

She felt betrayed, and sickened, but did not immediately end the relationship.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

More instruments, certainly, than he really needed and all positioned so that Julia could not help but see them and be sickened by their hard, eager gleam.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Indonesian schoolchildren prayed for rain on Thursday as another firefighter lost his life battling drought-fuelled blazes consuming forests and peatlands and blanketing parts of Southeast Asia in a sickening haze.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The cyclospora outbreak has become the nation’s largest of its kind, sickening thousands of people.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

And I would be living within walking distance of a sickening number of farmers markets.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Market volatility has erased some funds’ value with sickening speed—most famously 2018’s “Volmageddon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Bright-green mist spews from their bases with a sickening hiss.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera