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Recent Examples of sanitorium
On Neurosyphilis and Fighting Fire with Fire Staten Island's Sea View sanitorium was abandoned in the 1970s and has laid in ruins, devoured by the surrounding vegetation for many decades.
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Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2016
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
Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2016
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitorium
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Everyone knows of a brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, a friend, grandparent or great-grandparent who has vanished at the schools, at the Indian hospitals or sanatoriums, in lunatic asylums or from the streets.—
Tanya Talaga
July 24,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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Maybe Pippa has a nervous breakdown and checks herself into a high-end spa/sanatorium in western Massachusetts.—
John Kenney,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
Noun
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Bolsheviks shot its monks in the first years of the Soviet Union, and converted the complex into a sanitarium and a cinema.—
Ainara Tiefenthäler,
New York Times,
19 Dec. 2022
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Camp and sanitarium admissions were voluntary, but may have been subject to family pressures.—
Neuroskeptic,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2018
Noun
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Pat Johnson suffered severe burns; at the hospital, doctors gave him a 5% chance of survival.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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Following the crash around 6:30 a.m., Campos was rushed to a hospital and later died as a result of her injuries.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Morgan was in hospice care and died Monday in her sleep of natural causes in Naples, Florida, her family announced.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Aug. 2025
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Director of Jesus Movement at the King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church Wanda McIntyre said Rahaman Ali, who died Aug. 1, first visited the hospital July 19 and remained in hospice care at Norton Audubon.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Sanitorium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitorium. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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