infirmary
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Working as a cook at the local infirmary, she attends a revival meeting that proves pivotal to her development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
For the jail’s infirmary, there are options including adding new steel-braced frames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024
He was susceptible to infection as a diabetic, but doctors in the infirmary did not stop the wound from festering, according to a lawsuit that was handwritten and filed by the prisoner.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
One woman, a BBC journalist who does not want to be named, said she knew her newborn son was seriously ill within minutes of giving birth at the infirmary in 2021.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
Later, I learn that Azaan was taken to the temple’s infirmary with several injuries, but thankfully none that are life-threatening.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Hospitals’ infirmaries are facing greatest demand at the moment, and no longer their intensive-care units as occurred last year, according to Alberto Chebabo, the vice-president of the Brazilian society of infectious disease specialists.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
The injured were diverted to workhouse infirmaries to be treated after Swansea General Hospital was bombed.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2021
The tide overwhelmed camp hospitals, relief organizations built temporary infirmaries, and the Army converted barracks to house battalions of sickened men.
From Slate ● May 16, 2020
There were government hospitals as well: The infirmaries that grew out of the much-despised workhouses of the 19th century.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2016
Were the SS really going to leav e hundreds of prisoners behind in the infirmaries, pending the arrival of their liberators?
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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