chiefly Scotland
: secure, safe
also
: dependable
sicker
adverb
chiefly Scotland
sickerly
adverb
chiefly Scotland
Examples of sicker in a Sentence
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Spring came, and my father got sicker and sicker, more and more frail.
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Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
And if a patient becomes sicker or dies, the question of who is liable becomes an issue.
—Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
Evidence suggests that infection with Covid and influenza can make someone sicker.
—Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 6 Jan. 2024
The more problems there are, the sicker the patient is likely to be.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Then, transplant centers rolled out a new way of measuring severity of the disease, so sicker patients could be identified and given higher priority.
—Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
In the years since, pandemic, war and inflation have left a lot of the world sicker, poorer and angrier.
—Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
After all, Americans widely support the idea that sicker folks should be covered at the same rate as healthier ones.
—Wendy Netter Epstein, STAT, 3 Nov. 2023
On the other hand, mothers in this study may have been slightly sicker than average, says Olivia Man, an internal medicine resident at the Mayo Clinic and the study’s first author.
—Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
And if a patient becomes sicker or dies, the question of who is liable becomes an issue.
—Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
Evidence suggests that infection with Covid and influenza can make someone sicker.
—Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 6 Jan. 2024
The more problems there are, the sicker the patient is likely to be.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Then, transplant centers rolled out a new way of measuring severity of the disease, so sicker patients could be identified and given higher priority.
—Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
In the years since, pandemic, war and inflation have left a lot of the world sicker, poorer and angrier.
—Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
After all, Americans widely support the idea that sicker folks should be covered at the same rate as healthier ones.
—Wendy Netter Epstein, STAT, 3 Nov. 2023
On the other hand, mothers in this study may have been slightly sicker than average, says Olivia Man, an internal medicine resident at the Mayo Clinic and the study’s first author.
—Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
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“Sicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sicker. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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