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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

“The police are not looking to involuntarily hospitalize people who are not a danger to others,” said Debbie Pavick, chief clinical officer for Thresholds, a nonprofit behavioral health organization that works with homeless people.

From New York Times Nov. 30, 2022

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

From Sinister Paradise by Robert Moore Williams

“Omicron still hospitalizes and kills lots of people,” Geoghegan says.

From Science Magazine Jan. 11, 2024

Heat kills an average of 34 people a year and hospitalizes hundreds more in Miami-Dade, records showed.

From Seattle Times Jul. 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

She’s paying $2,100 a month for health insurance with an $8,000 deductible that she already blew through at the start of the year when her 4-year-old son was hospitalized with asthma.

From Salon Sep. 9, 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

The motorcyclist and the two protesters who were knocked down were hospitalized.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

People in the melatonin group were nearly 3.5 times as likely to be hospitalized for heart failure as those in the comparison group.

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 2026

But several studies have shown that black patients were treated and hospitalized at later stages of their illnesses than white patients.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

From New York Times May 5, 2023

"Just like previous variants, omicron is hospitalizing people and it is killing people."

From Salon Jan. 29, 2022

Unlike the fall-winter surge, which devastated Southern California’s denser urban communities, the latest Delta wave hammered the state’s rural and agricultural areas — infecting, hospitalizing and killing residents of some counties at unprecedented levels.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2021

“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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