take sick
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You can also take sick leave when you’re mentally overwhelmed or exhausted or, for example, when you need time for routine dental care.
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
"Like many women, I legally had to take sick leave. But I was grief stricken, not sick, harbouring a deep sense of loss."
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025
Others in Ili posted online about being unable to take sick children to hospitals, as well as about the deaths of family members in lockdown.
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 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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