hospitalize
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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
Like many other states, Idaho can hospitalize people against their will under a court-ordered involuntary mental health commitment.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 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 sick cell anemia.
From Washington 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
“Omicron still hospitalizes and kills lots of people,” Geoghegan says.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024
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
Still, asthma kills about 4,000 people a year and hospitalizes at least half a million.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2010
McConnell was hospitalized in mid-June after being found unconscious in his D.C. home.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
“He was hospitalized for many weeks and continues to have permanent and debilitating burn injuries that affect every aspect of his daily life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
In Michigan, which has seen an especially high number of cases, health-department officials said nearly 200 people had reported being hospitalized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
More than 400 people have been hospitalized in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
She got her injuries treated locally and refused to be hospitalized.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Experts say the decision about hospitalizing someone with clinical depression is often based on the severity and duration of symptoms, insurance coverage and whether they are a danger to themselves.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 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
James Spears said they discussed the possibility of hospitalizing Britney Spears on an emergency psychiatric hold.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
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
