as in tired
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted
was sick and tired of wasting her time at long, pointless meetings
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Recent Examples of sick and tired
Aside from the recent results, the Nuggets are just plain sick and tired of Minnesota.
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Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system?
—Sally Pipes, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
There’s hope on the horizon for those sick and tired of Alabama’s extreme cold snap.
—Leigh Morgan, al, 24 Dec. 2022
It’s been a bit, and after a successful defense, Dr. Allen is somehow not sick and tired of robots and answered a bunch of our questions about quadrotors, swords, and why mixing them is such a great idea.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2016
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Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system?
—Sally Pipes, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
There’s hope on the horizon for those sick and tired of Alabama’s extreme cold snap.
—Leigh Morgan, al, 24 Dec. 2022
It’s been a bit, and after a successful defense, Dr. Allen is somehow not sick and tired of robots and answered a bunch of our questions about quadrotors, swords, and why mixing them is such a great idea.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2016
See All Example Sentences for sick and tired
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick and tired
Adjective
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For workers who are tired of their jobs following them home every night, and for businesses that are tired of the burnout, the turnover, and the chaos that comes from not having boundaries, Zenzap is the work chat app that changes everything.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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One still gets tired of the Wednesday rice and fish dish.—
Jeremy O. Harris,
Vanity Fair,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Martha, bored, had tried an experiment.—
Cassandra Neyenesch,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Hohenhaus explains that bored cats may pester owners for attention, which is often mistaken for hunger.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Claude chatbot users are getting fed up with the recent rollout of new usage limits as Anthropic, the developer behind Claude, struggles to keep up with surging demand for its AI systems.—
Bruna Horvath,
NBC news,
2 Apr. 2026
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Otzma Yehudit lawmaker Tzvika Foghel, who chairs the National Security Committee and advanced the bill through the committee under his leadership, told Fox News Digital that Israelis are fed up with policies of containment and compromise.—
Benjamin Weinthal , Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The vlogger Jordan Cheyenne, for one, wrecked her sharenting career by accidentally posting footage of herself coaching her son, who was distraught over the family’s sick puppy, to make a specific kind of sad face for YouTube.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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People without health insurance tend to seek less preventative treatment, become sick more frequently, and die younger than do people with insurance.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Sick and tired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick%20and%20tired. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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