Thesaurus results for HOSPITALIZE

hospitalize

verb

Definition of hospitalize

as in to nurse

to place (someone) in a hospital for care or treatment The doctor wants to hospitalize her for a few days so that he can run some tests.

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Recent Examples of hospitalize Sprague was invoking Yates by pointing out that Yates hospitalized herself multiple times and tried to kill herself twice in an attempt to protect her children. — Sumiko Corley, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026 Beginning in 1961, she was regularly hospitalized for overwork. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 Nepali Police published the details of 49 people hospitalized due to injuries from the flooding, most of whom are from the Nuwakot and Rasuwa regions. — Callum Sutherland, Time, 26 Aug. 2026 She was hospitalized with kidney and autoimmune issues a few days earlier. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hospitalize

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Scott had similarly worked with Flynn and Colman before, as well as Billie Piper, who’s magnetic as the famed casting director Patsy Pollack, who nursed Charleson in his last days.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026
By the end of the round, Hrgović was nursing a cut above his right eyebrow — a worrying sign for a man whose June 2024 fight against Daniel Dubois was stopped because of cuts above both his eyebrows.

— Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of nurse

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Car parts, for example, are generally treated like other goods from China despite ongoing tensions over the country’s fast-growing auto sector.

— Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Dark circles are the anchor of tired girl makeup, treated as a feature to style rather than a flaw to cover.

— Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of treat

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For some people attending it, being at Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields charity music festival felt like marking their place at a historical event.

— Angela Yang, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
Raneem Imam of Memphis recently attended a City Council meeting to support a moratorium on new data centers.

— Christopher Cann, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of attend

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Of those, 94% were in unvaccinated people or people with an unknown vaccination status, while 3% occurred in people who had received one MMR dose.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
The latest findings indicated the vest could reduce an astronaut’s radiation dose by about 60% in a solar storm as fierce as the one in 1972 and by nearly 40% in a calamity mirroring 1989.

— Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026

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