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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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Any coast in a storm, then, and onward to the sanatorium.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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Nearly two dozen former sanatoriums are still standing in the town, housing a dwindling number of families like Ms. Bondarevi’s.—
Oscar Espinosa,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 May 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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Fazekas said a police officer and a library maintenance worker, who both helped extinguish the small blaze, were treated for smoke inhalation at a local hospital.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, prosecutors said.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 July 2025
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The author, who lived and worked in a cabin in Utopia, Texas had briefly been in hospice care.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
12 July 2025
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The law also significantly expands the list of qualifying conditions to include post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, Crohn’s disease, terminal illness, and conditions treated under hospice or palliative care.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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“Sanitorium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitorium. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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