sicced

variants also sicked
past tense of sic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sicced
Verb
  • At least four people were killed and eight were injured after a gunman attacked a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints service in Michigan on Sunday morning, police said.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy and Odesa were also attacked, President Voloydmyr Zelenskyy said in a post to Telegram.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Federal authorities raided and arrested Smith before that encounter happened.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The following day, agents raided her husband’s home and business, Century Homebuilders Group, in Coral Gables.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The students, identified by police as Kyle Anderson and Samuel Patten, both 18, were each charged with burglary in the second degree as a hate crime and criminal nuisance in the second degree, police said.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Three people were arrested and one was charged with murder the same week.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Johnson’s embrace of the president struck some of his critics in El Salvador and Washington as excessive for a diplomat.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The earthquake struck at a depth of 4 miles, with its epicenter approximately 9 miles west of Johannesburg.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Sicced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sicced. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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