hospitalizing

present participle of hospitalize
as in treating
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 hospitalizing Over the summer, a salmonella outbreak linked to pumpkin seeds infected 81 people in France, hospitalizing six. — Erin Jones, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 An overnight police chase in Miramar ended with a black SUV overturning into a Tesla dealership parking lot, injuring one and hospitalizing another, authorities say. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026 Lillian once fought back with an iron skillet and beat Q unconscious, hospitalizing him. — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 1 June 2026 Last night, an Air Canada airplane collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing two pilots and hospitalizing scores of passengers. — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026 Low levels of vaccination across the country mean measles outbreaks will continue to occur, needlessly hospitalizing and killing the unvaccinated. — Andrea Uhlig, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026 Derek Borsody, a first-year medical student at UC, remains unconscious, unresponsive and in intensive care months after a balcony fell about 20 feet from a Stetson Street condominium, hospitalizing 10 people, according to a recent lawsuit filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2026 Statewide, the virus seems to be hospitalizing more children than in past years, Graham said. — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 9 Jan. 2026 As of Thursday evening, a manhunt was underway for the man who shot Beam near the Oakland, California community college’s football field, hospitalizing Beam in critical condition and sending the school into lockdown. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
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  • In September, every ward in Sylhet's 100-bed Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, which is treating measles, appeared overwhelmed.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • With the Patriots and Bills accounting for four games on the schedule, the Jets can’t keep treating divisional victories as occasional breakthroughs.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
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  • Orlando has spent decades nursing an enormous inferiority complex to the bigger, older, richer, and more historically relevant cities in Florida, the Southeast, and the East Coast.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Holmes, who is still nursing the younger of the couple’s two small children, is filing challenges to her conviction and taking calls about what to expect in prison.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2026
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  • According to reporting by Semafor on Monday, the decision came after Wall Street executives privately raised safety concerns about attending the event with the event’s organizers, including Saudi sovereign fund PIF’s governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In an exclusive interview with People published Wednesday, Schumer recalled attending an impromptu wedding celebration after discovering a ceremony taking place on the beach near her family's accommodations.
    — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Hospitalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hospitalizing. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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