stricken

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Her three children were born at Glenn Medical, and Wampler herself was a patient there for two months last year, when she was stricken with pneumonia and internal bleeding.

From Los Angeles Times

In “The Face of a Stranger,” readers meet William Monk, a police officer who is stricken with amnesia and whose hunt for villains reveals hints to his past identity.

From Washington Post

Officers remain at the scene, and on Thursday a police car could be seen as workers operated the cranes and moved around the stricken vessel.

From BBC

Television images showed people using temporary bridges and ladders to cross a narrow drainage canal running alongside the rails to reach the stricken train in the darkness.

From Washington Times

“The methods — oh, how invasive they were,” the 57-year-old Dutch activist-physician said, shaking her head at the memory of stricken women staggering or being carried into the hospital.

From Los Angeles Times