infirmary
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A sort of community in miniature emerged, with security and scavenger teams and plumbers and one lone doctor running an overpacked infirmary.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
For the jail’s infirmary, there are options including adding new steel-braced frames.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024
Guests are encouraged to rummage about the infirmary, taxidermist’s place, padded room, libraries, apothecaries, laundry and even a detective agency.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023
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
Instead he steered me amiably into the lane leading toward the infirmary.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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