sanitarium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium 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 In the early 1900s, 1 out of 7 people in the U.S. and Europe died from what was then called consumption, while others were quarantined for life in a sanitarium. Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018 See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
Noun
  • 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
  • For a local experience, book a treatment at one of Jurmala’s historic sanatoriums.
    Becca Blond, AFAR Media, 1 Aug. 2025
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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