sanitarium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium He was injured in a car accident in New York City following the 1912 World Series, and two months later died aboard a train while enroute to California to recuperate at a sanitarium. — Libby Cierzniak, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026 The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war. — Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
Noun
  • The daughter, incidentally, is a tuberculosis patient in a Swiss sanatorium (shades of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, which had appeared to great acclaim only five years earlier).
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The site was home to a sanatorium for internal diseases in the early 20th century, founded by the physician Theodor Büdingen.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • Israeli strikes in central and southern Gaza killed two Palestinians and wounded several others, according to hospital officials.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Cherished relatives died alone in hospital rooms surrounded by sterile machines and an ever-rotating set of masked medical personnel.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • This is where her path intersects with home-hospice worker Ben (Joey Pollari, a recent Murphy favorite who’s appeared in two Monsters and The Beauty within the past year), whom Constance mentors in the art of giving sponge baths.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Vanderhoff was transferred to in-home hospice care at the end of July.
    — Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Established in 1855 as a military post to fight against the Mescalero Apache, the fort went on to play a minor role in the Civil War and later served as a tuberculosis sanitorium and a World War II internment camp.
    — Allison Savage Bates, Denver Post, 19 July 2026
  • Italian designer Matteo Thun was responsible for the makeover of what used to be a sanitorium.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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