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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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It was conceived in 1912 as a sanatorium for Austro-Hungarian aristocrats but lay dormant for years.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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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
Noun
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Some schools and hospitals across the country are training staff on what to do if federal agents come knocking.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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These prescriptive measures took place in isolated medical facilities known as sanatoriums, and some of the fancier ones resembled a cross between a hospital and a resort.—
Outside,
Outside,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The son of college football coaching legend Lou Holtz on Sunday shared an update on his father after he was admitted to hospice care earlier in the week.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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Jo Ann Weiss Sawitz Bass, the matriarch of the landmark Joe’s Stone Crab, died Saturday in hospice at her Miami Beach home across the street from her family’s restaurant.—
Howard Cohen,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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 5 Feb. 2026.
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