sickly
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Smog compromised the health of kids and the sickly and the elderly.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
But the team doesn’t just apply a flattering touch-up to sickly markets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
But it’s not wrong that the movement is starting to look a little sickly.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025
Smith was a sickly child, contracting bronchial pneumonia, tuberculosis, German measles, mumps and chicken pox which kept her in "periods of lengthy bed rest".
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Here was a sickly woman who lived much of her life alone and who wrote poetry from the time she was a child.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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