sic
IPA: sˈɪk
noun
- Initialism of second-in-command. [Somebody ranking next below a commander.]
- (education, chiefly South Carolina) Initialism of School Improvement Council.
verb
- To mark with a bracketed sic.
- (transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
- (transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.
adverb
- Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.
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Examples of "sic" in Sentences
- Ahh the justification of hyprocisy [sic] is always so transparent.
- Sen. Kyle [sic] is a long-standing senator from Arizona and expert on immigration.
- How these data trouble Professor Hospital's claim that Columbia students are the "cream of the cream [sic]" is a subject for further debate.
- “One estimate by Lewin Associates [sic] is 131 million Americans will lose their private insurance and be pushed into a government plan,” he claimed.
- Los Angeles County is 40 percent Roman Catholic, and 95 percent Christain [sic], and yet these percentages are not reflected in the ethnic diversity of judges in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
- Seneca the Younger: You're correct that in Latin 'sic' means 'thus'; however, in editing, 'sic' means 'it was wrong in the original and I'm anal enough to point that out to you in case you missed that horrendous grammatical/spelling error.'
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