sick
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His podcast claims to “explore what’s really making us sick and what we’ll need to take on—be it racism, corporate capitalism, or snake-oil salesmen—to keep all of us healthy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
I’m genuinely sick and tired of today’s politics, and I know I’m not alone.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
“I am obviously extremely sick, and I thought I did everything to make myself better, and obviously, two songs in, I just can’t play this show tonight,” Moroney said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"I'm kind of sick and tired of talking about England's style of play. The style of play I want to see is England winning," Vaughan added.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
I had carried a recommendation from that man across an ocean, even when the thought of carrying something he had touched made me sick.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Payments are adjusted for medical risk factors, so insurers are paid more to cover sicker beneficiaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
In the current system, premiums are calculated by assessing the full pool of enrollees, including those who are older and sicker and tend to spend more on medical care.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 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
Those who lose health insurance will skip medications and primary care and subsequently get sicker and end up in the emergency room, explained Goel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
“If Mother is any sicker than she was when she came down to dinner, all right,” I says.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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
The late-night host’s comments, Carr said, were “the sickest conduct possible.”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
“Often the people that are going into these programs are the sickest of the sick,” said Cathy Pederson, a neurobiologist at Wittenberg University in Ohio and the lead author of the study.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2025
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
