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"laid low" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a person or situation that has been made to suffer great misfortune or hardship, and implies a sense of defeat or submission. For example, "After his business failed, the entrepreneur was laid low by his financial losses."
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So he laid low for a while.
Mr Coke initially laid low in response.
I'd already been laid low by Easy Living magazine.
Scores of passengers were laid low by the virus.
Finally, the British laid low and waited for darkness.
But the public passed judgment & the project was laid low.
One Avalanche was laid low with autoimmune issues for years.
Machado laid low had the look of comeuppance.
Then Mike Yardy, a world Twenty20 winner suddenly laid low.
The writer claims that Starr wantonly pursued and used Lewinsky in order to see the President laid low, and that Lewinsky got laid low in the process.
Ryan Sidebottom was the last England player to be laid low by achilles trouble.
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