sickle
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The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
In the lawsuit, Dickey’s parents alleged that Bucknell athletic trainers and coaches knew their son had sickle cell trait and failed to take steps to ensure precautions were in place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Without any products on the market, Fulcrum Therapeutics had been striving to commercialize its experimental drug for sickle cell disease, but those plans appear to now be on hold.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
A model of how one of GluBio’s experimental ‘molecular glue’ drugs causes two proteins in the human body, WIZ and cereblon, to stick to each other in a way designed to relieve sickle cell disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
When he woke a dog was licking vomit from his beard, and dark clouds were scuttling across the face of a sickle moon.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
On a street in Romania in 2004, a young boy sold Mr. Kalb a souvenir for $16: a set of Soviet-era binoculars etched with red stars, hammers and sickles, and crossed Kalashnikov rifles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
“You can’t buy new sickles for combines anymore,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Eighteen-year-old Noor Mohammad and 25-year-old Ahmad keep swinging their sickles to clear a remaining metre of grain.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
Behind them, a small band of black men and women, dressed in early 1800s field pants and waistcoats, long flowing skirts and turbans, marched in tight military columns, wielding rakes, sickles and cane knives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
And then, after handing her my spare set of sickles, we secure our weapons and are off into the night.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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