- a variation of sic.
sick
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AI is likely to pay off eventually, but investors are getting sick of all the hand-wringing over near-term returns, analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
On Sept. 30, after days of in-person campaign events, Talarico made a virtual appearance at an event, saying he was sick.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
In other words, investors are getting sick of projecting payoffs from investments in technology with uncertain, far-off returns — and they’re also tired of debating what that means in the here and now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Pressed — surely she’s pretended to be sick to get out of a party? — she concedes she has, explaining that she thought he meant the criminal case against her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
People were trying to get a ship to America, or they were sick lying in the streets of Ballilee, or just wandering out on the road as Devlin put them out of their houses.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
“I was getting sicker and sicker,” he told People.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
She described the vets in the study as older and sicker than the general public.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
These enrollees tend to be sicker and poorer than those on traditional Medicare.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
But Rosie got sicker and a biopsy showed in 2024 that she did have terminal cancer.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Dr. Fiona had to go take care of her other patients, children who were sicker than I was, but I had one last question.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
To be in a cosy rut is about the sickest thing ever, I think.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
Some of the sickest burns on the internet right now are coming from French bureaucrats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
She sees the sickest children in Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
We had known, of course, that when overcrowding reached a certain point, the sickest were taken to the brick building at the foot of the great square smokestack.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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