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hospitalize

[hos-pi-tl-ahyz] / ˈhɒs pɪ tlˌaɪz /


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Many were galvanized by the police’s decision over the weekend to forcibly hospitalize a prominent activist who has been on a hunger strike in support of the movement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

When he gets unruly, they discharge or hospitalize him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

The country has new vaccines for COVID, influenza and RSV, the three fall respiratory viruses that hospitalize and kill hundreds of thousands annually.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

Mabel Alvarez Benedicks told the AP that agents repeatedly ignored pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter as she felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk.

From Washington Times ● May 22, 2023

I cannot get her out of this steel block unless I hospitalize her, perhaps operate.

From Sinister Paradise by Robert Moore Williams

“Omicron still hospitalizes and kills lots of people,” Geoghegan says.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024

Every year, it hospitalizes an average of 1 to 2 percent of children younger than 6 months.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022

She and other infectious-disease specialists are also revisiting their response to RSV, a common virus that hospitalizes about 60,000 children younger than 5 each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022

“Each year, the flu sickens millions and hospitalizes hundreds of thousands of people during the fall and winter months. The elderly are especially hard hit every year,” said Peter Kirk, Sermo CEO.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2020

Still, asthma kills about 4,000 people a year and hospitalizes at least half a million.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2010

The Duchess of Sussex reportedly sent Thomas Markle Sr., 82, a final letter in December 2025, while he was hospitalized following a leg amputation.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Four flight attendants were seen by medical personnel, including one who was hospitalized for further treatment, according to a statement from United Airlines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

None of the participants had been hospitalized for COVID-19.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

According to a health ministry report issued Sunday, 65 people were injured, including 37 police, with 12 people hospitalized during Saturday’s protests.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

COOKIE, the name of a nurse who had been friendly to him when he was hospitalized, was tattooed on his right biceps.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

It is still killing roughly 1,000 Americans each week and hospitalizing even more.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

Experts say the decision about hospitalizing someone with clinical depression is often based on the severity and duration of symptoms, insurance coverage and whether they are a danger to themselves.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023

Last year, a sedan that had been struck by another car slammed into a homeless encampment in Koreatown, hospitalizing four people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

"Just like previous variants, omicron is hospitalizing people and it is killing people."

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2022

Mother was confused, but she always has the good manners to be hospitalizing even to perfect strangers, so she asked them in and told me to run squeeze some orange juice.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver


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