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sanitarium

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as in sanatorium

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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

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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

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The man was in serious but stable condition at a hospital after being shot once in the torso on the capital city's north side, Austin officials said at a news conference.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
The amount of visitors that crowded the hospital lobby at a moment’s notice is a testament to how beloved and cherished Chad was, and always will be.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2026

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Vanderhoff was transferred to in-home hospice care at the end of July.

— Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2026
West believes Gilkar and Ahmed plan to put the baby into hospice care in California rather than moving forward with his potentially life-saving surgeries, according to the filing.

— Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of hospice

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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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