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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

The country has new vaccines for COVID, influenza and RSV, the three fall respiratory viruses that hospitalize and kill hundreds of thousands annually.

From Seattle Times Sep. 6, 2023

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

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

From Sinister Paradise by Robert Moore Williams

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

From Seattle Times Jul. 18, 2023

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

As a young founder, he was hospitalized twice during punishing work stretches.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

Among 288 patients, 14 were hospitalized or died.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

The family said in another statement published Saturday that Hilton remains hospitalized and denied reports of any public statements from the blogger.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

McConnell was hospitalized in mid-June after being found unconscious in his D.C. home.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

Mr. Voskuijl has been hospitalized, but Mr. Kleinman's back at the office.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

"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

Byers emphasized that Mississippi minors ages 5 to 17 are seeing the fastest growing number of coronavirus cases, with the highly transmissible delta variant hospitalizing young people at a high rate.

From Washington Post Aug. 21, 2021

By the end of 2020, nearly 10% of Congress had contracted the coronavirus, temporarily hospitalizing at least two lawmakers and forcing a number of lawmakers to quarantine.

From Seattle Times Jan. 2, 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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