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sanatorium

[san-uh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-] / ˌsæn əˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr- /




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Reached over the phone, Rose said she also helped with research, uncovering details on the seaside sanatorium in France where Morvan spent much of his early childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

The relentless 10-month war has prompted a local commander to transform a Soviet-era sanatorium into a recovery center for servicemen to treat both mental and physical ailments.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

The fate of the other 11 children also taken from the Mariupol sanatorium to the Donetsk clinic is not known.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2022

This was because they had arrived from a sanatorium used to recuperate respiratory patients.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2022

Anna Djvorak was convinced that the doctor had miraculously saved her son’s life by not sending him to the tuberculosis sanatorium back in 1903.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

I've got a chapter in the book about travel, just because it's a really time-honored approach, from the old Swiss sanatoria right all the way back through the medieval Christian tradition of pilgrimage.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

Crawford estimates that in 1925 alone the couple spent a third of their income on doctors, medicines, and stays in hospitals or sanatoria.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022

The plaintiff in the case is John Pambrun, 77, a First Nations man who spent nearly six years of his childhood in Indian hospitals and sanatoria.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2018

Rehab centers have the feel of pre-modern sanatoria.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2016

We have visited a large number of the hydropathic establishments and Turkish bathing sanatoria, and there is much to be praised in all we have seen and little to be blamed.

From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables

Some of Kyiv's most vulnerable citizens – the elderly and women with young children – are being offered places in converted sanatoriums and rehabilitation centres in the city's forested outskirts.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

His tuberculosis, which before it killed him at age 40 led to rest “cures” at sanatoriums notable chiefly for their ineffectiveness?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Their status granted them access to isolated sanatoriums in the countryside where food and safety were guaranteed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

The southern town of Yalta was the prime holiday destination during Soviet times, with many sanatoriums built in and around it.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

Your money would be useful to some plans I've got for some big sanatoriums along the line of Schulze's up at Saint Christopher.

From The Conflict by David Graham Phillips


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