- a variation of sic.
sick
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Moniava is also the founder of a charitable fund for sick children that until recently aided Ukrainian refugees in Russia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
My grandmother has been sick for a while, and this — well, it has just been a really bad week.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
You suspect the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder felt a little sick following their 2-0 defeat on Saturday evening.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
You need to be taking it regularly, even before you get sick.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
He patted my head as though I were a sick child.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
These enrollees tend to be sicker and poorer than those on traditional Medicare.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
The rules required people to get sicker to qualify to get well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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
But Rosie got sicker and a biopsy showed in 2024 that she did have terminal cancer.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
“If only my Olive could be present. We were hoping to give Olive Her Chance. But, poor girl, she’s sicker than a poisoned pup. I don’t know where it’s all coming from!”
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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
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
Some of the sickest burns on the internet right now are coming out of the French Foreign Ministry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
On the podcast last week, Carr called Kimmel’s remarks about Kirk’s alleged shooter “some of the sickest conduct possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world's sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
