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The ongoing war is not a focus of the doc but rears its ugly head like a pin threatening to burst the sanatorium bubble when the alarms go off.
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Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 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
And Davos itself is a microcosm of this microcosm: a landscape of Burkean sublimity whose rarefied air brought tuberculosis patients to its slopes for decades before the development of streptomycin began to empty out the sanatoriums, which over time refashioned themselves as hotels.
—Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 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
And Davos itself is a microcosm of this microcosm: a landscape of Burkean sublimity whose rarefied air brought tuberculosis patients to its slopes for decades before the development of streptomycin began to empty out the sanatoriums, which over time refashioned themselves as hotels.
—Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanatorium
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Just like today, drug addiction often started with painkillers given for an injury, as was the case with hunky actor Wallace Reid, who died in 1923 at a sanitarium where he was being treated for morphine addiction after a train accident.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
23 Dec. 2022
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Bolsheviks shot its monks in the first years of the Soviet Union, and converted the complex into a sanitarium and a cinema.—
Ainara Tiefenthäler,
New York Times,
19 Dec. 2022
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In April, firefighter paramedic Graham Hoffman, 29, died after being stabbed in the chest in the back of an ambulance while transporting a patient to a hospital on what started as a medical call from the police.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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After her first three babies came home, Ness kept up her daily visits to the hospital, bundling up her infants to sit with their sister.—
Jeff Truesdell,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The high-school reunion is, as far as popular imagination tells it, dead—or, at the least, in extended hospice care.—
Jordan Michelman,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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At age 96, on Thursday morning under hospice care at the UHealth Tower hospital in Miami, Schaecter died a warrior for those causes.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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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
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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 10 Sep. 2025.
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