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Recent Examples of sanitorium
On Neurosyphilis and Fighting Fire with Fire Staten Island's Sea View sanitorium was abandoned in the 1970s and has laid in ruins, devoured by the surrounding vegetation for many decades.
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Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2016
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
Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2016
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitorium
Noun
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Yeah, sure, his life was sad: sanatoriums, paranoia, unfinished novels, early death.—
Carlos Valladares,
ARTnews.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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And Davos itself is a microcosm of this microcosm: a landscape of Burkean sublimity whose rarefied air brought tuberculosis patients to its slopes for decades before the development of streptomycin began to empty out the sanatoriums, which over time refashioned themselves as hotels.—
Caitlín Doherty,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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Camp and sanitarium admissions were voluntary, but may have been subject to family pressures.—
Neuroskeptic,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2018
Noun
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Soccer Player Sidelined Due to Injury from 'Pretty Hefty Sneeze' According to Ashley, the hospital staff were astonished.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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In an Episode 2 hospital flashback, Abby discovers her father, who was about to remove Ellie's brain for a humanity-saving cure.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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In September 2024, Fritz died of complications from a stroke while in hospice care.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The people helping your mother with her hospice care surely can suggest some resources for you.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Sanitorium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitorium. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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