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hospitalize

verb

Definition of hospitalize

as in to nurse

to place (someone) in a hospital for care or treatment The doctor wants to hospitalize her for a few days so that he can run some tests.

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Recent Examples of hospitalize Two homes were destroyed and 10 others damaged in the strikes, along with damage to an educational facility, Hryhorov said, adding that two other men were hospitalized after a separate strike hit an industrial zone. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Things took a sharp turn the night before the finals, when Grey was hospitalized after rupturing a disc in her back. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2026 Three people were killed and two were hospitalized after an NBC news helicopter crashed in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening. — Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2026 Over a month after Perez Hilton livestreamed acts of self-harm and was hospitalized, his family shared an update on his health and addressed rumors online. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hospitalize

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At the end, Bjornsson — who had been nursing a knee injury — retained his title, although not everyone made it through unscathed.

— Rob Tanner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Plastic water bottles pile up at shrines to Difunta Correa, who legend says miraculously nursed her infant son after dying of thirst in the desert.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

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Two aircraft can combine their observations instead of treating each sensor picture separately.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
The following books refuse to treat breakups as a singular ending or distinguish the breakup from the inevitable awakening.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

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Of those, 94% were in unvaccinated people or people with an unknown vaccination status, while 3% occurred in people who had received one MMR dose.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
The latest findings indicated the vest could reduce an astronaut’s radiation dose by about 60% in a solar storm as fierce as the one in 1972 and by nearly 40% in a calamity mirroring 1989.

— Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026

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