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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

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

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., was hospitalized after suffering a stroke Saturday afternoon while attending his son’s hockey game, his office announced Sunday.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Here is the actual reality of our grown-up life: When our youngest daughter was 2 months old, she was hospitalized in the intensive care unit for a lung infection.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate from Texas, denied rumors that he had been secretly hospitalized in an Ohio psychiatric facility, calling it "the craziest thing I've ever heard."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

They said at least one man collapsed in mid-September and was hospitalized for dehydration, and meals have been served as early as 4 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

She got her injuries treated locally and refused to be hospitalized.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The outbreak, the largest recorded cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history, sickened nearly 13,000 people across 21 states, hospitalizing 570 and killing two.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

Their warnings have come with over 1 million U.S. deaths from the disease and a fresh variant that daily is hospitalizing over 100,000 Americans and killing more than 300.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 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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