take sick
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Don’t let what your job or the government says about a mentally and physically taxing procedure to determine whether you take sick leave.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
Blue flu is when a large number of police officers take sick leave as a form of protest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
It conducted a survey of care workers, which suggested one in three of them could not afford to take sick leave.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
Vicks ran miserable ads with lines like “moms don’t take sick days” and variations saying the same of dads, bridesmaids and winter Olympians.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
People didn’t just take sick like this for nothing.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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