Thesaurus results for INFIRMARIES

infirmaries

noun

plural of infirmary

as in hospitals

a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured The school's infirmary has reported an increase in flu cases.

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Recent Examples of infirmaries Polly had spent years moving between workhouses and infirmaries, sometimes returning to her father’s house. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026 What's more, some travel insurance companies don’t cover visits to ship infirmaries. — Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2026 Nor are they provided with their own sets of keys to access infirmaries, clinics, housing units and psych wards. — Mary Buser, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026

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Images of hospitals overwhelmed with the sick and dying flooded our consciousness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Last year’s catastrophic southern floods, triggered by 25 inches of rain over three days, killed at least 145, inundated more than 33,000 homes and damaged critical facilities such as schools, hospitals and highways.

— Reuters, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026

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Ingram said some of the concerns about ending self-attestation are overblown and people can get diagnoses to support their inability to work at many places, including charitable clinics and federally qualified health centers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
To prevent women from contracting HIV from their partners while pregnant, antenatal clinics hope to start offering vaginal rings, which slowly release a protective antiretroviral drug over the course of a month.

— David Cox, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026

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