stricken
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Evacuations were taking place Wednesday from a cruise ship stricken with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, the World Health Organization said, as experts confirmed a rare strain that can be transmitted between humans.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
The item, which goes under the hammer in Penshurst later this month, was awarded to the engineer of a steamship responsible for saving more than 700 of the stricken ocean liner's passengers in April 1912.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
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
And that, the story went, is how man claimed ascendency over the world that was Zeru, while the demons were stricken from it by the angels.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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