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Recent Examples of sick-out
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
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Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
On Wednesday, the City Council voted to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Baggett’s family members.
— TRANSIT TRAUMA: Days after hundreds of Metro bus drivers staged a sick-out protesting safety concerns, L.A.’s transit network continued to experience a string of violent behavior.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
On Wednesday, the City Council voted to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Baggett’s family members.
— TRANSIT TRAUMA: Days after hundreds of Metro bus drivers staged a sick-out protesting safety concerns, L.A.’s transit network continued to experience a string of violent behavior.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick-out
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Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.—
Jamila Stewart,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2023
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
22 Mar. 2023
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Luxury, for instance, has seen the US as its most resilient market in a global slowdown.—
Marc Bain and Joan Kennedy,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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The government's monthly jobs report, which will be released on April 4 at 8:30 a.m. EST, is expected to show a slowdown in hiring, with economists forecasting that employers added 130,000 new hires in March, according to financial data company FactSet.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2025
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On March 5, Chung was among a group of students arrested by the New York Police Department for holding a sit-in at an academic building at Barnard College, according to her lawsuit.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2025
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Between July and December 2023, thousands of Guatemalans participated in marches, rallies, sit-ins, and road blockages to demand the resignation of senior officials.—
Laura Gamboa,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Mar. 2025
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The order also directed an investigation of the job action, which was a violation of the Taylor Law barring certain state employees from striking.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2025
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However, there were allegations that the sick-out at that time was, in truth, a job action.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Prior to that, Ottawa reached the postseason every year between 1997 and 2008, a streak interrupted only by the 2004-05 lockout.—
Julian McKenzie,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Hopes rested on the shoulders of two young phenoms who entered the league the year the lockout ended: Sidney Crosby, the divine 18-year-old Canadian drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins, and of course, Ovechkin, the bruising 20-year-old from Moscow.—
Becky Sullivan,
NPR,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Sick-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick-out. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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