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sickroom

noun

Definition of sickroom

as in hospital

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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. — Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025 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 In 1855, Martineau once again confined herself to a sickroom due to a resurgence of her symptoms. — 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

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Noun

Three people died at the scene and a fourth man later died in hospital, regional military administration head Oleksandr Hanzha reported, while over a dozen people were injured.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
The vehicle arrived at a hospital, where Kohen was pronounced dead, and another individual was critically injured, according to authorities.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of hospital

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For instance, Bell once figured out the route a patient had taken walking to the infirmary by identifying the type of clay on the patient’s boots—an incident Doyle used in The Sign of the Four.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026
He was brought to the prison infirmary, where numerous guards surrounded, punched, kicked, choked, dropped and manhandled him.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026

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The former sanatorium offers a superlative spa experience with 16 different bathing experiences, including saunas, steam rooms and access to a private swimming jetty on the beach.

— Laura Hall, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
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

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