sanatorium

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Recent Examples of sanatorium Stevenson’s stay had put the mountain sanatorium on the map. Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025 The thriller — more horrific than straight-up scary — is worth checking out, if only for the late Brittany Murphy's nervy turn as a razor-wielding woman confined to a sanatorium. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025 Now, the sanatorium hosts public and private tours and paranormal investigations for those interested in exploring the building. Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Aug. 2025 Castle Apartments: Built in 1906, Castle Apartments was originally Whitwell Hospital and has been a sanatorium, retirement home and residential apartments over the years. Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sanatorium
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Noun
  • The phrase is sometimes attributed to Hippocrates, but probably comes from Edward Livingston Trudeau, a physician who founded a nineteenth-century tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York, when antibiotics did not exist.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 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
  • Marcelino spent five days in the hospital, while her husband had to undergo a liver transplant.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The driver and the bicyclist, who was struck, declined to be taken to the hospital.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • On Thursday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the arrests of seven people accused of hospice fraud in Monterey County.
    Linh Tat, Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Scores of providers sprang up along a corridor stretching west from the San Gabriel Valley through the San Fernando Valley, which now has the highest concentration of hospices in the nation.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
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 14 Feb. 2026.

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