stricken
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Stricken with grief, he drifted for a while, finding work in the Californian oilfields - before travelling to Paris and Florence, where he studied art.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025
Stricken in one arm, she cradles the baby, proclaims him "a great king ... born unto Israel," and is cured.
From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2022
Stricken by a viral pandemic, but with the world’s best hospitals to fight it.
From Slate • May 13, 2020
Stricken with a mystery ailment that left her dry heaving and breathless, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu, a 38-year-old Indian writer, went with her mother to see a top gastroenterologist in the eastern city of Kolkata.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2018
Stricken, he took in the pages on the wall, their cryptic lines drawn to depict oscillations in the voice, cries and dips lost to both of us.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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