stricken

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"There was some expectation that we'd get another guitar player and just get out there and tour, but we couldn't. We couldn't do that. We were just stunned and grief stricken."

From BBC • Mar. 17, 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

After his liberation, Kulisiewicz, stricken with tuberculosis, dictated “716 songs in many languages to a nurse who realized how valuable this material was.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The stricken vessel was later found on a sandbank.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

The story runs that he was stricken with pneumonia after spending two nights exercising in the winter rain—but the pneumonia was the culmination of another sickness.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee