stricken
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Years later, Lou shook with tears and reached for his son’s hand in his own mother’s hospital room as she lay stricken with illness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Madigan: I feel stricken by what’s happening with the Washington Post, stricken.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
An animal charity is having to pay out about £400,000 on vet bills each year as call-outs to help stricken dogs increase "massively", staff say.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
The company also operates the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, now being decommissioned.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
And Harry was hurtling back out of those wide, tunnellike pupils and Gregorovitch’s face was stricken with terror.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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