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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • After being discovered outside the Gladstone Road address, the baby was taken to the hospital, the release noted, without naming the then 25-year-old suspect.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • As a result, same-sex couples continue to face other challenges in other aspects of daily life, from visiting their partner at hospitals to raising children, hurdles that families in many other global financial capitals that look to attract top talent no longer face.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Wallack family had long owned a building there, which in its time had been a motel and then a hospice.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • With no treatment for SSPE, he was discharged from the hospital to home hospice care and died 43 months later in 2015.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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