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"How are we going to be at war with Canada? They're going to take their two set submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sic them on us?"

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The sic of it all is worth a little attention.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

Why someone doesn’t sic HR on him is beyond me.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022

After leaping from the balcony Booth will stand tall and, in his best actor’s voice, pronounce the Latin phrase sic semper tyrannis—thus always to tyrants.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

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

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

It was pretty funny when Swift sicced her fans on the Carlyle Group, and Netflix can handle the criticism, but the individual harassment that this tweet was bound to bring?

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2021

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

Just days after John Oliver sicced his HBO show viewers on the FCC over Net Neutrality legislation, Stephen Colbert has declared war on Amazon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2014

“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

Now researchers are siccing the technology on viruses.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

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

All the same, he disliked going to cops like Bill Koontz for help or advice because that usually meant he wound up siccing them on his own people.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

He—he was all for detaining me right away, Renie; sending for pa, and—and sicking the law right on his—his own sister's son.

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst

On one occasion the old man was down on his knees trying to make the small dog jump at him, while the boy kept sicking him on.

From Jack Winters' Baseball Team Or, The Rivals of the Diamond by Mark Overton

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