sickest

Example Sentences

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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

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

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