- a variation of sic.
sick
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At first, Cruz wondered whether the unusual bones belonged to an animal that had been sick or injured during its lifetime, which would make them an example of paleopathology.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Feeling sick with grief, McNulty, from Glasgow, said she was too upset to go into work.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
At the same time, Noonan is still a patient, one who was sick with pneumonia in the three weeks that Pulmozyme wasn’t available to her while she was calling and messaging her insurer and doctor.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Three months later, after having single-mindedly “stalked Dudamel,” as she called it, Borda left a sick bed to hop on a plane to Lucerne, Switzerland, contract in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Even when the letter fragment is back on the floor of my locker my hand still feels the filth, the invisible sick on my fingers.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
It means the elderly people who stay in homes with too few staff end up sicker, and have to go and stay in the hospital for longer.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
When health-insurance prices rise, younger, healthier people are more likely to drop coverage, leaving a greater proportion of sicker people who are costlier for insurers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
But Rosie got sicker and a biopsy showed in 2024 that she did have terminal cancer.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
“I think he’s running out of steam,” a few of my D.C. happy hour comrades confessed Wednesday after the hearings, “Or he’s really sicker than he lets on.”
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
“If Mother is any sicker than she was when she came down to dinner, all right,” I says.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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
Bed-and-breakfast hotels turned into cheap boardinghouses, attracting Britain’s sickest and poorest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Separately, the NHS also records the number of the sickest patients in hospital with flu over the winter.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
Carr called Kimmel’s comments “the sickest conduct possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
On the night when he was sickest, when his pulse was almost gone and his breathing only a flutter, when I thought he was dying, I sat by his side and held his hand.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
