infirmary
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Working as a cook at the local infirmary, she attends a revival meeting that proves pivotal to her development.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
For the jail’s infirmary, there are options including adding new steel-braced frames.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024
“Every now and then, people had high fever. They were taken to the infirmary, then brought back, and that was it,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024
One woman, a BBC journalist who does not want to be named, said she knew her newborn son was seriously ill within minutes of giving birth at the infirmary in 2021.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
Together they worked in a stale little infirmary where Mr. Kapasi’s smartly tailored clothes clung to him in the heat, in spite of the blackened blades of a ceiling fan churning over their heads.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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