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Recent Examples of sanitarium
Patients who, in the opinion of camp staff, are a risk to themselves or others are chained down by the foot in a building called 'the sanitarium', for as long as the staff feel is necessary.
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Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2018
Among them was a TB sanitarium that became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
When Hoover was a teen-ager, Dickerson was institutionalized for a time at a sanitarium in Laurel, Maryland.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
The map that indicates which rooms are situated in the old hospital wings, like the sanitarium, add to the spookiness.
—Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
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Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2018
Among them was a TB sanitarium that became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
When Hoover was a teen-ager, Dickerson was institutionalized for a time at a sanitarium in Laurel, Maryland.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
The map that indicates which rooms are situated in the old hospital wings, like the sanitarium, add to the spookiness.
—Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
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Everyone knows of a brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, a friend, grandparent or great-grandparent who has vanished at the schools, at the Indian hospitals or sanatoriums, in lunatic asylums or from the streets.—
Tanya Talaga
July 24,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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Maybe Pippa has a nervous breakdown and checks herself into a high-end spa/sanatorium in western Massachusetts.—
John Kenney,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Gables was later treated at a nearby hospital and filed a police report soon after, resulting in Rhymes’ arrest.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Pat Johnson suffered severe burns; at the hospital, doctors gave him a 5% chance of survival.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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Jannsen has been working in hospice care for 33 years.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
17 Aug. 2025
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Rahaman Ali, 82, died Aug. 1 after being in hospice care at Norton Audubon Hospital since July 19.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
16 Aug. 2025
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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
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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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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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