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In February, she introduced a bill, AB 1038, that would allow hunters to sic trained dogs on bears to chase them through the woods, but not kill them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
It won’t matter that Snyder tried to sic a private investigator on the commissioner.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
Whatever the substance of his personal feud with Mitchell may be, it comes shortly after his attempt to sic his followers on a journalist after being duped by a fake Twitter account.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021
Sometimes, with fiction, it’s sic biscuitus disintegratum — that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2021
“Ye must forget sic things. Ye maun summon up your powers to what is difficult. Will ye do that?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Less rote, but also well within genre expectations, is the title story, narrated by the youngest member of a family that makes cursed objects and sics one of them on a greedy villain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
But if I keep on tacklin' all the odd jobs she sics me on to, I'll be able to qualify pretty soon as a boss carpenter, a master plumber, and an expert electrician.
From The House of Torchy by Arthur William Brown
One taste she does give is how, in order to win the vote of Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly, she sicced a former president of the University of Notre Dame on his case.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2024
Though we see Joanna Strange, the company’s first whistleblower, her appearance is brief — and the documentary doesn’t mention that WeWork sued her, and even sicced the FBI on her.
From The Verge ● Apr. 2, 2021
She even sicced her fan base on them, which caused Big Machine to shut down its Nashville offices hours early last Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
Another company, alarmed at my front-page story about the impending failure of a multibillion-dollar merger, spammed me with off-the-record calls from executives and sicced around 50 investors on me.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2017
“I wanted to be Lissa’s friend, but she was afraid of me. She sicced the dog on me. Why was she scared? What’s wrong with me, Georgie?”
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Taylor Fresh had just last month voluntarily recalled imported contaminated lettuce from a grower in Central Mexico that was linked to a cyclosporiasis outbreak that affected 15 states and sicked tens of thousands of people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
At least 14 sea lions were reported sicked off the coast of Malibu due to toxins created by harmful algal blooms, according to the California Wildlife Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
Lifespan President and CEO Timothy Babineau said officials determined the restrictions are the “most prudent thing to do” in light of the new coronavirus that’s sicked tens of thousands globally.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2020
The pursuing posse took down the sad-faced dogs, again sicked them on the trail.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don’t doubt a minute but he let thet bull out and sicked him on me.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Perhaps Cook can buy Ternus time by siccing Apple’s lawyers on a top AI rival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
I was already planning on attending a friend’s Seder, and at least this task did not involve Yohana siccing an expert on me or making me host an elaborate event.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
No longer would each try to gain an edge by siccing governments and agencies on the other.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
The magazine’s official account tweeted an actually-quite-flattering caricature of Cliffe, with the message that she’d been put on something called #TheNewPuritansList for being “our favorite Mean Mommie” and siccing “mobs” on people.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2018
Matt says, “Yeah! Who did? And nice try, siccing the cops on us. When the whole thing was your fault! Ha-ha-ha! The hole thing!”
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
That might not stop the labels from sicking their lawyers on the site now that its popularity is growing.
From Forbes ● Jun. 21, 2011
Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact he takes so much trouble over me, and goes at the job with such zest that I feel like "sicking him on," as they say to dogs.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
Half an hour later, lonely Laura, discovering the girls on their doorstep, amused herself by sicking the dog at them.
From Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin
Those that are going back with me and those that are not are always sicking me at the subject.
From The Phantom Herd by B. M. Bower
