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Recent Examples of sickroom
On the night of September 8, 1976, as Mao hovered near death, senior members of the Politburo gathered in a sickroom in the leadership compound in Beijing to pay their final respects.
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Tyler Jost,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2025
This show at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., revealed an artist who always seemed to be emerging from dark sickrooms, seizing the landscape, which struck his eyes as fresh and startlingly sensate.
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Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
5 Dec. 2023
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
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Liz Szabo,
NBC News,
17 May 2022
Martineau broke off all contact with Greenhow, left her sickroom in Tynemouth, and resumed traveling and writing once more.
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Lorraine Boissoneault,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Nov. 2021
When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment.
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Matthew J. Palm,
orlandosentinel.com,
20 Feb. 2021
For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion.
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Christopher Benfey,
The New York Review of Books,
25 June 2020
Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom.
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Bettina Boxall,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2020
Tyler Jost,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2025
This show at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., revealed an artist who always seemed to be emerging from dark sickrooms, seizing the landscape, which struck his eyes as fresh and startlingly sensate.
—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
5 Dec. 2023
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
—
Liz Szabo,
NBC News,
17 May 2022
Martineau broke off all contact with Greenhow, left her sickroom in Tynemouth, and resumed traveling and writing once more.
—
Lorraine Boissoneault,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Nov. 2021
When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment.
—
Matthew J. Palm,
orlandosentinel.com,
20 Feb. 2021
For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion.
—
Christopher Benfey,
The New York Review of Books,
25 June 2020
Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom.
—
Bettina Boxall,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickroom
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In April, when Rojas got news that his father had been rushed to the hospital, Roberts quickly took the decision on whether to play out of Rojas’ hands, scratching him from the lineup.
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Davis native skateboarder Nyjah Huston was in a hospital bed just a month and a half ago.
Noun
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John Anthony Cole, 49, is the prisoner in the video, and the incident occurred in the Adult Detention Center infirmary, Miller said.
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On Tuesday, he was taken to the Collin County Jail and was in isolation at the infirmary within the jail, Fox News Digital confirmed.
Noun
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Those who have been rescued were receiving medical treatment a local health clinics, Duque said.
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By November, Fuller had lost her job at a Harvey OB-GYN clinic that went out of business.
Noun
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Overall Winner World Food Photography Awards The Khoja Obi Garm sanatorium (health hotel) is a colossal concrete complex built on radon-rich hot springs in the mountains of Tajikistan.
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Thousands of patients passed through the sanatorium before antibiotics dramatically reduced tuberculosis deaths.
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“Sickroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickroom. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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