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sic

Abbreviation (Latin ‘thus’, ‘so’) sometimes found in brackets within a printed quotation to show that the original has been quoted accurately even though it contains an apparent error (‘she wrote threatening to charge me with assult and batery [sic] if I did not apologize’).



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The incident took an implausible turn moments later, when Eugene police officers burst through his door and sicced a police dog on him - apparently mistaking him for the prowler.
But he recalled an Ohio dairy farmer who refused him even a drink of water and an Arkansas man who sicced his pit bulls on him.
Maybe the Obama administration has sicced regulators on him, instructed the IRS to audit him, and the recession has dried up his clients’ interest in doing renovations.
 
 
 
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