sanatorium

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Recent Examples of sanatorium 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 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. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sanatorium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanatorium
Noun
  • 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
  • Camp and sanitarium admissions were voluntary, but may have been subject to family pressures.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • Pat Johnson suffered severe burns; at the hospital, doctors gave him a 5% chance of survival.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Following the crash around 6:30 a.m., Campos was rushed to a hospital and later died as a result of her injuries.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Morgan was in hospice care and died Monday in her sleep of natural causes in Naples, Florida, her family announced.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Director of Jesus Movement at the King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church Wanda McIntyre said Rahaman Ali, who died Aug. 1, first visited the hospital July 19 and remained in hospice care at Norton Audubon.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • On Neurosyphilis and Fighting Fire with Fire Staten Island's Sea View sanitorium was abandoned in the 1970s and has laid in ruins, devoured by the surrounding vegetation for many decades.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2016
  • 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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“Sanatorium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanatorium. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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