sick
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Founded in 1936, the place is named after Saint Jose Benito Cottolengo, an Italian priest who in 1928 opened a home for the sick and the marginalized in Turin.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
“I’m just sick of the people he stands with,” Stevens told Anderson Cooper on CNN on Sunday night.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
‘A lot of people will be calling in sick on Nov. 19.’
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Would you cure the sick, or crush your enemies?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
There was a part in the book where Essa healed a bunch of sick children, and, in payment, one of the village boys had tried to join her on her quest.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Raad was the sicker of the two - his ribs visible and his chest heaving as he took rapid, shallow breaths.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“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
When health-insurance prices rise, younger, healthier people are more likely to drop coverage, leaving a greater proportion of sicker people who are costlier for insurers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Now Dr. Darwin, their last parent, was getting sicker and sicker.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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
Bed-and-breakfast hotels turned into cheap boardinghouses, attracting Britain’s sickest and poorest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
It's a situation akin to removing the "sickest patients" from hospitals and placing them in backstreet clinics, according to Anders Bach-Mortensen, an associate professor of social care at Roskilde University.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
On the night when he was sickest, when his pulse was almost gone and his breathing only a flutter, when I thought he was dying, I sat by his side and held his hand.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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