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Recent Examples of sick-out
Workers have even more leverage: Employees can circulate internal petitions calling on their CEOs to cut ties with ICE and organize collective actions like sick-outs.
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Eric Blanc, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2026
Boomer also denied that the district’s accusation that employees in the department had organized a sick-out on Oct. 15.
—Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 18 Dec. 2025
Last season, Maggie faced nursing union negotiations, culminating in a sick-out.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 28 Aug. 2025
Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
Eric Blanc, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2026
Boomer also denied that the district’s accusation that employees in the department had organized a sick-out on Oct. 15.
—Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 18 Dec. 2025
Last season, Maggie faced nursing union negotiations, culminating in a sick-out.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 28 Aug. 2025
Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick-out
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Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.—
Jamila Stewart,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2023
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
22 Mar. 2023
Noun
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With the next round of debuts and sophomore shows, their houses need solid creative foundations to further recover from the luxury slowdown.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
24 Feb. 2026
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Home Depot saw a decline in profit in 2025 amid a slowdown in the housing market and economic uncertainty.—
Kelly Yamanouchi,
AJC.com,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The guys, Jon Fishman describes it as the best sit-in ever.—
Alison Weinflash,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2026
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Before his later activism with King, Jackson was part of the Greenville Eight which held a sit-in at the Greenville County Public Library on July 16, 1960.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Oct. 2025
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Organized job actions like strikes or sickouts are prohibited by federal law, but since air traffic control staffing is so tight, a small number of employees taking unscheduled time off can be enough to cause problems.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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The owners likely will have a lockout in December if the players don’t agree to a salary cap.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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The expectation is that the two sides won’t reach an agreement by the December deadline, leading to a lockout.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Sick-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick-out. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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