sickest
Example Sentences
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In 2023, the year Alice lost her daughter, OUH had the highest stillbirth rate compared to 25 specialist trusts that care for the sickest babies.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 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
The late-night host’s comments, Carr said, were “the sickest conduct possible.”
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2025
“Often the people that are going into these programs are the sickest of the sick,” said Cathy Pederson, a neurobiologist at Wittenberg University in Ohio and the lead author of the study.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 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
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