sic
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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
Max doesn't sic goblins on his little sister but he does drag her along on his quest to impress Allison and banish the risen Sanderson sisters.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 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 Brown, Arthur William
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
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 story had sicked the War Manpower Commission into investigating.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Where had he been all this time, anyway!—and her nearly out of her head thinkin' this rotten woman downstairs was sicking the Board o' Health on to her!
From The Vehement Flame by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell
Those that are going back with me and those that are not are always sicking me at the subject.
From The Phantom Herd by Bower, B. M.
It has so much verve and good spirit that I feel like patting him on the back, and "sicking him on," but Lord! what a fool!
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
