sanatorium

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Recent Examples of sanatorium Maybe Pippa has a nervous breakdown and checks herself into a high-end spa/sanatorium in western Massachusetts. John Kenney, New Yorker, 21 July 2025 Nearly two dozen former sanatoriums are still standing in the town, housing a dwindling number of families like Ms. Bondarevi’s. Oscar Espinosa, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025 The overall look was sort of old-school sanatorium, slightly updated but with zero indulgence to luxury—definitely not a place for flaunting Birkins. Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2025 Yeah, sure, his life was sad: sanatoriums, paranoia, unfinished novels, early death. Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sanatorium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanatorium
Noun
  • An upright piano, several music stands, and a Gretsch drum set were globbed together in a tiny, all-white room that could pass for a sanitarium.
    Jane Bua, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks?
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Markwood spent several days in the hospital but did make a recovery.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Sacrament revolves around two cousins from San Bernardino, Larette and Cherrise, who, along with two traveling nurses—four ICU nurses in all—are isolating in individual Mallard trailers in CamperWorld, three blocks from Our Lady of Sorrows hospital.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The teams also visit people in hospitals, in hospice, with special needs or developmental challenges and those dealing with disasters.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This version, however, focuses on his friendship with 12-year-old Georg, who discovers and secretly raises the puppy in a mountain hospice, leading to adventures in the Swiss alps.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Inside the Old Louisville murder house: This Old Louisville mansion was home to a grave in a wine cellar, a sanitorium and a cult.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2022
  • My great-grandmother died from tuberculosis in a sanitorium with concrete floors.
    Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020

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“Sanatorium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanatorium. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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