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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

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

The girl’s mother had previously told The Associated Press that agents had repeatedly ignored her pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter, who had a history of heart problems and sickle cell anemia.

From Seattle Times May 21, 2023

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

From Sinister Paradise by Williams, Robert Moore

In the United States, it hospitalizes 2% to 3% of infants annually, mostly between 0 and 5 months of age.

From Science Magazine May 18, 2023

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

“If we see a rise in cases or hospitalizes, we are going to come back,” Adams said.

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 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

Nevins developed the guidebook after an unsettling experience when her dad was hospitalized.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

As of Monday, more than 6,000 people have been infected by the parasite and 102 people have been hospitalized.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1,600 people fell ill after eating at Taco Bell; we know of at least 141 who have been hospitalized.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

As of July 9, 44 of Michigan’s reported cases indicated they were hospitalized.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

In October he fell ill with fever and dysentery and was hospitalized for eleven days, during which he lost considerable weight and passed his time reading Atlanta newspapers and playing chess with other boys.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

Their warnings have come with over 1 million U.S. deaths from the disease and a fresh variant that daily is hospitalizing over 100,000 Americans and killing more than 300.

From Seattle Times Jun. 1, 2022

The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday that it was opening an investigation into damage of cultural artifacts after hospitalizing the man, according to the Associated Press.

From Washington Post May 30, 2022

But hospitalizing him on oxygen might have been fruitless — his lungs were “stiffening” and perhaps unable to absorb it.

From New York Times May 26, 2020

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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