as in to come down (with)
to become affected with (a disease or disorder)
a number of the passengers on the cruise ship had sickened with food poisoning
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The Chicago Sky just got bigger — and a whole lot better from behind the arc — in the first official day of WNBA free agency.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025 -
Both Arsenal and Manchester City got the job done in the Champions League in midweek with Arsenal securing automatic progress while City scraped their way through to the play-off places.—
Darren Richman,
The Athletic,
2 Feb. 2025
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Local water managers say they were caught off-guard by the decision when they were informed just a day before the water started flowing.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2025
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But Wall Street and Sand Hill Road were recently caught off guard by the sudden rise of DeepSeek, a lean, open-source AI competitor based in China.—
Edwin Olson,
Fortune,
4 Feb. 2025
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The Appraisal As part of the underwriting process, your lender will contract an appraiser to determine the home’s fair market value and whether the asking price is too high.—
Kelsey Neubauer,
CNBC,
31 Jan. 2025
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State prison officials also didn’t disclose the number of people who contracted the illness for the first six weeks of the pandemic.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Sicken (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sicken%20%28with%29. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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