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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

Adams announced a plan in November to hospitalize some severely mentally ill people involuntarily, citing the city’s “moral obligation to act.”

From Seattle Times May 10, 2023

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

From Sinister Paradise by Robert Moore Williams

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

Marler targeted salmonella because it hospitalizes and kills more people than any other foodborne pathogen.

From Seattle Times Feb. 24, 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

“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

Nearly 13,000 people across 21 states had been sickened, 570 hospitalized and two had died after an outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Even if someone is involuntarily hospitalized, he usually only gets a week or less, not enough time to be stabilized, and then is dumped on the street again.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Three people remain hospitalized, two in critical condition and one stable, following Sunday's accident, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said at a press conference.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

Salazar’s mother previously told The Times her son had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and hospitalized for his mental health struggles in the years before the slaying.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Unless you counted Cookie, the nurse he’d known when he was hospitalized as a result of his motorcycle accident.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

And only a small percentage of people are masking or taking other precautions in public despite a new wave of covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus infections hospitalizing and killing seniors.

From Salon Feb. 12, 2024

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

From New York Times May 5, 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

“If delta wasn’t making children sick and hospitalizing them, it might make sense to take more time to look at the safety profile,” said Morita, executive vice president for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

From Washington Post Aug. 28, 2021

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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