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hospitalizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of hospitalize

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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 Measles still hospitalizes children. — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Nov. 2025 Flu still hospitalizes and kills tens of thousands of Americans annually. — Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 24 June 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

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After Robin is gravely injured, he is taken in by the sage prioress Brigid (Jodie Comer), who nurses him back to health at an island convent.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 17 June 2026
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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Sustainable investing is already on the back foot, worn down by years of greenwashing scandals, funds quietly stripped of their green labels, and a political backlash that treats ESG as an insult.

— Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Borrowing from the principles of Land Art, Amangiri treats the landscape as the protagonist rather than a backdrop.

— Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026

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