sick and tired

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Recent Examples of sick and tired It’s been a bit, and after a successful defense, Dr. Allen is somehow not sick and tired of robots and answered a bunch of our questions about quadrotors, swords, and why mixing them is such a great idea. IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2016 There’s hope on the horizon for those sick and tired of Alabama’s extreme cold snap. Leigh Morgan, al, 24 Dec. 2022 And, basically, people are sick and tired of it. Scott Gottlieb, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2022 Robinson, for one, was sick and tired of losing. Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2022 See All Example Sentences for sick and tired
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick and tired
Adjective
  • The Panthers survived an Aleksander Barkov delay of game penalty and McDavid slaloming through tired penalty killers only to be turned away by Bobrovsky’s stomach snow angel.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
  • My therapist buffs and moisturizes my tired skin with nutrient-rich seaweed body polish and a firming mask before laying shiver-inducing strands of detoxifying fresh seaweed across my back.
    Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Recited their Social Security number to bored voices.
    David Lee Condrey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • Stein described the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act before a classroom of bored students.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Padilla said he got fed up listening to her remarks about criminals and invasions and tried to ask a question, while moving forward past the wall of television cameras.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025
  • Drummer Greg Errico had gotten fed up with the discord within the group and left earlier in ’71 midway through the Riot recording; rather than immediately replace him with a new stickman, Stone decided to fill out the remaining tracks with the rudimentary early drum machine and its genre presets.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • There is another current salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers that has already left 45 people sick and 16 hospitalized across 18 states.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Some of the samples tested positive for Salmonella and additional testing found that the samples were closely related to the Salmonella found in sick people.
    Amber Brenza, Health, 8 June 2025

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