sanatorium

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Recent Examples of sanatorium 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 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 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
  • As a result, UnitedHealthcare no longer considers Ascension Wisconsin hospitals and providers as in-network.
    Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • An affidavit seen by CNN said that Sanchez was initially taken to a local hospital in critical condition in the early hours of Saturday morning.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Johnny had resided in hospice after suffering his second heart attack in the same year.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In an interview with The Washington Post a month after her husband’s death, Shay described her final moments with him, remembering his desire to watch the entire original trilogy of Indiana Jones films after leaving hospice care to return home.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 1 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 8 Oct. 2025.

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