- a variation of sic.
sick
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At first, Cruz wondered whether the unusual bones belonged to an animal that had been sick or injured during its lifetime, which would make them an example of paleopathology.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Chin-Hong said it was particularly important to get the shot now for those at higher risk of becoming seriously sick from COVID, who haven’t been vaccinated in more than a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
At the same time, Noonan is still a patient, one who was sick with pneumonia in the three weeks that Pulmozyme wasn’t available to her while she was calling and messaging her insurer and doctor.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
According to one of Mr. de Greef’s sources, some might be lonely; others polarized, sick or spiritually undernourished.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
I thought about that Lego kit a lot once his dad got sick.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
The Argentine researchers found that the so-called “superspreaders” had higher viral loads, were sicker and had signs of liver damage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 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
Bed-and-breakfast hotels turned into cheap boardinghouses, attracting Britain’s sickest and poorest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
She sees the sickest children in Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
On the podcast last week, Carr called Kimmel’s remarks about Kirk’s alleged shooter “some of the sickest conduct possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
By late evening, I was the sickest boy in those Ozark hills.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
