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sick person



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"A healthy person has a thousand dreams, a sick person only has one," he said as he stood in the Oval Office.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

The inmate told inspectors the deputies had ignored their requests to help the sick person.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2024

Kissing doesn’t seem to have played a major role in these beliefs, though it is entirely possible that one avoided kissing a sick person.

From Scientific American May 18, 2023

"She's a liar and she's a sick person in my opinion, really sick. Something wrong with her."

From Salon May 6, 2023

I’d stay to help out with this sick person or that until I’d run out of folks who needed help and didn’t mind an extra mouth to feed to get it.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson




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