sick
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“It’s a sick, authoritarian dance,” she told a reporter, “but I loved it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Moniava is also the founder of a charitable fund for sick children that until recently aided Ukrainian refugees in Russia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The precaution helps reduce the risk that crew members could become sick shortly before traveling to space.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
My grandmother has been sick for a while, and this — well, it has just been a really bad week.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
He was sweating and shivering, and although there was nothing left in his belly to throw up, he· still felt sick.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
These enrollees tend to be sicker and poorer than those on traditional Medicare.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
It means the elderly people who stay in homes with too few staff end up sicker, and have to go and stay in the hospital for longer.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
Since Medicare pays private insurers a set amount per member, the risk-adjusted model ensures companies don’t selectively choose healthy people by paying them more for sicker patients.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
“I think he’s running out of steam,” a few of my D.C. happy hour comrades confessed Wednesday after the hearings, “Or he’s really sicker than he lets on.”
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
“Ben’s in there, sicker than a dog. They got him.”
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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
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
She sees the sickest children in Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
Carr, who oversees regulations for broadcast stations, called Kimmel’s remarks “the sickest conduct possible” and called for ABC to act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
We had known, of course, that when overcrowding reached a certain point, the sickest were taken to the brick building at the foot of the great square smokestack.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
