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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
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In a picturesque river valley outside the northern city of Chuncheon, an old elementary school has been converted into a café and resort that resembles a high-end sanatorium, with blond wood and poured concrete.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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The serene 13,000-square-foot property was commissioned in 1912 by the Austrian monarchy and was originally intended to be a tuberculosis sanatorium.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
8 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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Less than 1% of those were performed in a hospital.—
Michelle Watson,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2025
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Explosions could be heard throughout Gaza, and at least 69 people were killed in the morning airstrikes, according to four hospitals that received the bodies.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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Voletta died of natural causes in hospice care at her home in Stroudsburg, PA, on February 21, a coroner for Monroe County confirmed to Rolling Stone.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2025
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John Drew was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in his later years and was supported by Drew, who paid for his hospice care.—
Nicole Briese,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Sanitorium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitorium. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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