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
A couple have offered to take sick people in their village to hospital if they face long waits for an ambulance.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2023
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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