sickness

Example Sentences

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To be terminally online is a brain sickness and most of us have some stage of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The findings showed that GLP-1 medications, especially semaglutide, were associated with fewer psychiatric-related hospital visits and reduced sickness absence.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

Those triumphs were not exactly foregone conclusions given the travel sickness Howe's team previously suffered with.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

That’s when Ms. Nichter, who is Jewish, observed passengers around her ripping apart their Israeli passports, stuffing the larger scraps into sickness bags while chewing and swallowing the smaller pieces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

It was as though the sickness was sucking first one, then the next, and the next, into the cabin—where they disappeared and did not emerge.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich