- superlative of sick.
sickest
Example Sentences
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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
Some of the sickest burns on the internet right now are coming out of the French Foreign Ministry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Carr called Kimmel’s comments “the sickest conduct possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
On the night when he was sickest, when his pulse was almost gone and his breathing only a flutter, when I thought he was dying, I sat by his side and held his hand.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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