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Recent Examples of sickie
Also in flu news, one of the few medications available might not be right for every sickie, especially healthy children and young adults.
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Editors, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
Editors, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickie
Noun
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Tyler Perry's gone full sicko mode with Beauty in Black, a soapy thriller about an exotic dancer who infiltrates the lives of the Bellarie beauty dynasty and disrupts its connections to a seedy criminal underbelly.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
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After the horrific attack, a $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to the sicko’s arrest.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2024
Noun
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The Gooneral’s attendees didn’t care that Malone was, from all available evidence, not a gooner at all but rather an unaffiliated, lone-wolf pervert.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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To accommodate the crabs' safe journey to the sea, Christmas Island residents typically keep rakes and leaf blowers in their cars to help the crustaceans on their way, the outlet reported.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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And while this means stunning foliage, many Wisconsinites have also likely broken out their rakes or leaf blowers to keep their properties clean.—
Cailey Gleeson,
jsonline.com,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Video and Audio Protection The idea that some online perv could connect to your webcam and spy on you is enough to give anyone the creeps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
13 Jan. 2025
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The perv — who has dreadlocks and wore a backpack with a Puerto Rican flag tied to it — fled on foot, according to law enforcement.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
3 Aug. 2024
Noun
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Once Gacy is caught, the media runs with the details — all those bodies crammed in that crawlspace, some of them buried in trenches Gacy made his employees dig out — and paints his victims as runaways or degenerates who put themselves in danger.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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Created by Rob Mac (formerly McElhenney, who also plays the character Mac), the Emmy-deserving series premiered 20 years ago on Aug. 4, 2005, introducing the world to a gang of morally bankrupt degenerates running the least successful bar in Philly, Paddy's Pub.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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The boy was adjudicated delinquent on the disorderly conduct charge.—
Cameron Knight,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
1 Oct. 2025
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Those charges include bail jumping, possession of a firearm as an adjudicated delinquent and operating a vehicle without consent of the owner.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Sickie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickie. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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