stricken
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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
"These people do a fantastic job, volunteers in the community and putting their life at risk to go and save another vessel that was stricken and in danger."
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Michael Jackson is stricken on the eve of a comeback tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Filipino sailor George Miranda was racing to help a stricken vessel aboard the tugboat Mussafah 2 when he last spoke to his wife and young daughter.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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