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field hospital

noun as in portable military hospital near fighting zone

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In the Atlanta area, nearly every major hospital is almost full, prompting state officials to reopen a field hospital for the third time.

More commonly associated with war zones than one of the world’s most sophisticated medical systems, field hospitals are a sad symbol of how poorly the United States has handled the pandemic.

This week, Rhode Island became the latest state to begin sending patients to a temporary field hospital because of rising demand for beds, as residents received an emergency alert on their phones warning them that hospitals were full.

They largely went unused then, but they have been kept intact as field hospitals in anticipation of the winter surge.

In some cases that meant sending election officials to personally collect ballots from military encampments and field hospitals.

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The Caiman offers a range of option packages, from bristling-with-machine-guns, to monster-truck-field-hospital.

Finally, with no sign of a let up in the Russian shelling, he took the decision that the field hospital had to be evacuated.

Pope Francis told an interviewer last year that the church should be a, “field hospital after battle.”

Loubani and Greyson found themselves inside the Fateh Mosque, which had become an ad hoc sanctuary, field hospital and morgue.

Draper assisted his Lieutenant, the real Donald Draper, in building a field hospital during the Korean War.

Soon after he was shot down, he was carried to the field hospital, where he died and was buried the following day.

Twice used as a field hospital, it stood until 1950 when, in ruinous condition, it was dismantled.

She told the corporal in charge that she was attached to the Baron de Mlide's field hospital and must get to her work.

A large field hospital had been set up close to the banks of the stream at Taza.

Suddenly it began to drop bombs and, whether by design or otherwise, they exploded in the middle of a field hospital.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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