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hospitalizing

verb

present participle of hospitalize

as in treating

to place (someone) in a hospital for care or treatment The doctor wants to hospitalize her for a few days so that he can run some tests.

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Recent Examples of hospitalizing Statewide, the virus seems to be hospitalizing more children than in past years, Graham said. — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 9 Jan. 2026 Lillian once fought back with an iron skillet and beat Q unconscious, hospitalizing him. — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 1 June 2026 In July, a small plane flying into the airport crashed into a tree in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood, hospitalizing two adults and two teens. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026 Low levels of vaccination across the country mean measles outbreaks will continue to occur, needlessly hospitalizing and killing the unvaccinated. — Andrea Uhlig, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026 Last night, an Air Canada airplane collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing two pilots and hospitalizing scores of passengers. — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026 As of Thursday evening, a manhunt was underway for the man who shot Beam near the Oakland, California community college’s football field, hospitalizing Beam in critical condition and sending the school into lockdown. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025 Flu season was particularly brutal last year, sickening at least 47 million Americans, hospitalizing 610,000 and killing 27,000, according to the CDC. — Liz Szabo, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2025 Derek Borsody, a first-year medical student at UC, remains unconscious, unresponsive and in intensive care months after a balcony fell about 20 feet from a Stetson Street condominium, hospitalizing 10 people, according to a recent lawsuit filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2026

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The era of treating supply chain efficiency as the primary metric is over.

— Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Read a physical book without treating it as something to check off a list.

— Allison Palmer July 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026

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Pippa Middleton embraced a breezy summer look while attending Wimbledon in London.

— Charlie Carballo, USA Today, 8 July 2026
There is nothing more unfair to the board and the attending owners than when one or more owners hijack a meeting with unruly behavior.

— Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026

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