as in nurses
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 hospitalizes
Flu still hospitalizes and kills tens of thousands of Americans annually.
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Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates this virus alone hospitalizes up to 80,000 children annually.
—Michael Cromer, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Measles still hospitalizes children.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Nov. 2025
Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates this virus alone hospitalizes up to 80,000 children annually.
—Michael Cromer, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Measles still hospitalizes children.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hospitalizes
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Her father — struggling with poverty and the grief over his wife's death — wants to shoot it, but Jessica secretly nurses the animal back to health, bringing her closer to her father in the process.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
25 Nov. 2025
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Also, first-time buyers need a state government that is actually on their side, not one that treats housing as an abstract debate.—
Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards,
Mercury News,
8 May 2026
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The county needs leadership that treats housing production as urgent while getting the details right.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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If all of this seems laden with meaning of the kind that often attends conceptual art in 2026—colonialism, empire, fraught ideas of foreigness and exoticness—you, like me, will have read Akhavan’s intentions completely wrong.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
6 May 2026
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The county executive also appoints people to fill vacancies throughout county government, attends Legislature meetings as a non-voting member, investigates internal issues and transfers staffers between departments.—
Ilana Arougheti
May 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 May 2026
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“Hospitalizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hospitalizes. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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