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sanitarium

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




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Then he was committed to a sanitarium in 1916 and was never the same.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025

He made it to the sanitarium in time.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023

Doctors urged him to enter a sanitarium for treatment, but Slim refused and headed for the desert, although doctors warned him he would be dead in a year.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

“My father was a psychiatrist with his own sanitarium in Beacon, N.Y., where I grew up,” he said.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Hayden was discreetly driven from the park in one of the fair’s innovative English ambulances with quiet rubber tires and placed in a sanitarium for a period of enforced rest.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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