sickness
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Some seven million people—more than 10% of the population—now claim at least one or more sickness or disability benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Dockworkers were signed off with sickness pay or put on the unemployment dole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
There is a very real fear about trying to catch things before they happen, and often, these products are trying to market a cure for a sickness that hasn’t even happened yet.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
It took the company more than six weeks to clear the site, during which residents complained about a surge of rats, flies and sickness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
On that day, she had followed the sickness inside and determined to do battle with the evil spirit of the disease.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
So many of the family’s cattle fell ill that she no longer believed the sicknesses were a coincidence.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
"There are sicknesses and we can not find any cure," said 54-year-old Abu Khalil, who has been displaced to Rafah in southern Gaza.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024
Charles N. Hunter, who later wrote a critical report accusing General Stilwell of sending men still recovering from jungle sicknesses back into combat, which drew a Congressional investigation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Nearly 30,000 people staying in schools, auditoriums and other evacuation centers worried about infections as cases of COVID-19 and other sicknesses popped up.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
They are subject to all the sicknesses of other fowl, together with some they have invented.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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