sanitarium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium He was injured in a car accident in New York City following the 1912 World Series, and two months later died aboard a train while enroute to California to recuperate at a sanitarium. Libby Cierzniak, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026 The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war. Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026 The phrase is sometimes attributed to Hippocrates, but probably comes from Edward Livingston Trudeau, a physician who founded a nineteenth-century tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York, when antibiotics did not exist. Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025 Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks? Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
Noun
  • The latter was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients in its heyday, which feels thematically right somehow.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The site was home to a sanatorium for internal diseases in the early 20th century, founded by the physician Theodor Büdingen.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • These counties have no hospitals or birth centers providing obstetric care, and no obstetric clinician.
    Kayley Corley, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2026
  • That has changed quietly, with robots now performing important roles in operating rooms, hospital wards, rehabilitation centers, and corridors around the world.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In July, the hospice workers staged a one-day strike for similar reasons outside Allina Health's headquarters in Minneapolis.
    Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The Ericksons could have opted to take the baby home with hospice care, keeping him pain-free until an inevitable end.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Established in 1855 as a military post to fight against the Mescalero Apache, the fort went on to play a minor role in the Civil War and later served as a tuberculosis sanitorium and a World War II internment camp.
    Allison Savage Bates, Denver Post, 19 July 2026
  • Italian designer Matteo Thun was responsible for the makeover of what used to be a sanitorium.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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