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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
See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
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Yeah, sure, his life was sad: sanatoriums, paranoia, unfinished novels, early death.—
Carlos Valladares,
ARTnews.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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The fan was placed onto a backboard, loaded onto a medical cart and transported out the stadium to a hospital.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
4 May 2025
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The avid hiker recovered from the ordeal after three days in the hospital and decided to join their search team.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and was in hospice care.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 May 2025
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In Hospice Every Day Melts Hearts By Lydia Patrick Life & Trends Reporter Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member news article 0 A touching moment between a daughter and her mother in hospice care has struck a chord online.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 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 7 May. 2025.
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