stricken
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"The doctors tried to help her but she died," her stricken grandmother says the next day.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Public alarm over the illness began to grow following reports that three passengers died aboard the stricken vessel, MV Hondius.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
Better equipped to mother Boy No. 2 or stricken with learned helplessness from being coddled by an expert on my phone day in and day out?
From Slate • May 10, 2026
The version detected aboard the stricken Hondius ship was a rare strain known as the Andes virus, which can be transmitted between humans.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
He was staring and trembling and his great size seemed only to add to his air of stricken misery.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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