stricken
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After her fatal accident, the movie shows a stricken Chin wrestling with his career path: “I don’t know if I find it justifiable anymore,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Even if they want to ditch the industrial food products, healthier alternatives cost more -- and in poverty stricken areas of East Tennessee, that's a non-starter.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Greensmith said he was stunned to see Shevels fall over and was one of a number of people who tried to help up the stricken victim as he lay unconscious on the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Then, William Hyde, a middle-aged Black man born and bred in Nashville, looked dumbfounded—he too had been stricken by Chud.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Her face was all white and stricken and I thought she’d quit then, but she kept it together, she kept it coming, although she sounded sort of shaky.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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