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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Shah treats daytime exertion as the precondition for nighttime rest, rather than the opposite.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
15 May 2026
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In a culture built around convenience and replacement, their studio offers a different approach, one that treats damage not as an endpoint, but as the beginning of something that takes time to restore.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2026
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Duncan’s daughter attends a private high school that so reliably sends its students to Stanford that even its principal isn’t above committing a bit of fraud to insure her own daughter’s place there.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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The boys both play football, and Browne often attends their games, sharing videos on Instagram.—
Emily J. Shiffer,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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“Hospitalizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hospitalizes. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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