sanitarium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war. Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026 The phrase is sometimes attributed to Hippocrates, but probably comes from Edward Livingston Trudeau, a physician who founded a nineteenth-century tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York, when antibiotics did not exist. Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025 Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks? Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
Noun
  • In May, after a multiyear renovation, the property, which spent the better part of the last century as a physical and mental wellness sanatorium, reopened as a modern spa resort.
    Veronica M. Stoddart, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2026
  • 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.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Paramedics took the child to the hospital, where the toddler died, Grace Mariot, a police spokeswoman, said.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026
  • The temperatures were so hot in France that the lack of air conditioning in many parts of hospitals is posing a health risk.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Noun
  • Gallagher is accused in the March 21, 2022, killing of her uncle, Thomas Arthur Burke, a 74-year-old who was dying of cancer while in hospice care at his Fort Lauderdale home.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • My personal experience of AIDS comes from my aunt, Lory Lobiondo, who became a hospice nurse after her best friend died of AIDS in 1987.
    Sarah Schulman, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Italian designer Matteo Thun was responsible for the makeover of what used to be a sanitorium.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

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

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