sanitarium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium Just like today, drug addiction often started with painkillers given for an injury, as was the case with hunky actor Wallace Reid, who died in 1923 at a sanitarium where he was being treated for morphine addiction after a train accident. Pat Saperstein, Variety, 23 Dec. 2022 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 Among them was a TB sanitarium that became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center. 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 See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
Noun
  • Investigators, however, have not been able to find records of patients from the time the sanatorium closed.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 12 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The man who was shot – identified by police as the original suspect – was taken to a hospital and is listed in stable condition.
    Doug Myers, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Canoy died at a local hospital.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Christopher North, who played keyboards as a founding member of the soft-rock group Ambrosia, died Monday in a hospice in Los Angeles.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Hinkle died March 3 in hospice care in Austin after suffering head, back and neck injuries in a fall in his driveway five days earlier, his daughter, Melody Hinkle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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

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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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