sanitarium
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Then he was committed to a sanitarium in 1916 and was never the same.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025
By the time he was released, on May 26, his children had been flown to a sanitarium called Poliany, a strictly guarded institution near Moscow.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023
Their mother is stuck in a nearby sanitarium, suffering from an undisclosed illness.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2023
Doctors urged him to enter a sanitarium for treatment, but Slim refused and headed for the desert, although doctors warned him he would be dead in a year.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023
Hayden was discreetly driven from the park in one of the fair’s innovative English ambulances with quiet rubber tires and placed in a sanitarium for a period of enforced rest.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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