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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
Noun
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Negligence is rendering the old sanatorium unhabitable, bit by bit, as a widening foundational crack threatens to cleave the building in two.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
28 Nov. 2025
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Among the films vying for the international prize is The Kartli Kingdom, directed by Tamar Kalandadze and Julien Pebrel, an exploration of a former sanatorium in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi that shelters refugees from the brutal 1990s war in Abkhazia.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
13 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Following the violent altercation, the victim learned he had been stabbed, and was promptly treated for his injuries at a local hospital and later released.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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That limitation becomes critical as robots move into real-world settings such as kitchens, hospitals, and homes.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The remote experience Piette and her co-founder, Joe Ebberwein, both had experience with remote patient monitoring working in the home health and hospice spaces.—
Elizabeth Green,
AJC.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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For example, one of the bills would eliminate the certificate-of-need regulatory process for nursing homes and hospice providers.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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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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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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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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