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sanitarium

[san-i-tair-ee-uhm] / ˌsæn ɪˈtɛər i əm /




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She even adopted a Ukrainian teenager, Filip Holovnya, from among the children taken to the sanitarium.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023

I have always loved the idea of a sanitarium: Swaddle me in blankets like a chic burrito, please, and tilt my deck chair toward the Swiss Alps or whatever hills you’ve got.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2023

Italianate-Mission in style, boxy with projecting cornice and flat roofline, it belonged to the developer, who in 1925 turned his private villa into a sanitarium and orphanage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022

But he also can’t keep his eyes off Sadie, a young woman who regularly visits New Bethany as a respite from the sanitarium where she’s being treated for tuberculosis.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2022

It faced in the direction of Bellevue, the sanitarium where Mary Todd Lincoln was forced to stay for a while in the 1870s.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed




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