sanatorium

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Recent Examples of sanatorium The ongoing war is not a focus of the doc but rears its ugly head like a pin threatening to burst the sanatorium bubble when the alarms go off. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2025 In the wake of his disturbing discovery, Wojnicz tries to focus on the concrete rituals of sanatorium life: the cold showers and long hikes, the simple food and hard drinking, the long debates with his fellow patients about history and philosophy. Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 The most popular treatment involved isolated sanatoriums in high-altitude areas such as the Adirondacks and the Rocky Mountains, where the cold, dry air was believed to be a cure. Karen Dobos, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025 Two days later, HUR relocated the men to a sanatorium in the woods outside Minsk. Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sanatorium
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Noun
  • 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
  • Camp and sanitarium admissions were voluntary, but may have been subject to family pressures.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • Marine units pulled three people from the water while 19 others swam to shore on Hart Island before they were transported by Coast Guard, police and fire department units to nearby City Island to receive further medical evaluation at a hospital.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
  • He was treated at a hospital and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Ferguson, 75, died Friday while in home hospice care, said WMAQ-Ch. 5 news anchor and reporter Marion Brooks, a close friend.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • Tom was in hospice care and Georgia smothered him as a kind of twisted gift to Cynthia.
    Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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

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