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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

Their mother is stuck in a nearby sanitarium, suffering from an undisclosed illness.

From New York Times Jul. 19, 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

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

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

For the sake of the good opinion society would maintain of itself, it sends the latter nowadays to hospitals, sanitaria, or their equivalents, where protection for itself without punishment for them may be practised.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.

Now—only just now—the physicians are doing the same, and establishing out-of-door sanitaria for consumption.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

A similar disregard for drainage has ingeniously managed to convert into pest-houses Simla and other Himalayan sanitaria.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Other trained nurses become matrons and housekeepers in private hospitals, sanitaria, and colleges.

From The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance by Lady Marjory MacMurchy Willison

The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker

Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2022

After graduating in 1953, she worked in sanitariums while completing a master’s degree in fine arts at BU, awarded in 1957.

From Seattle Times May 1, 2021

Upon her release, Zelda spent the next five years occasionally living with Scott and Scottie but mostly hospitalized in sanitariums in the United States.

From Washington Post Aug. 21, 2019

Tens of thousands of people were buried in unmarked graves around the nation during the 20th century after dying at state- or county-run psychiatric hospitals, then called insane asylums or sanitariums.

From Washington Times Sep. 25, 2015

The plan of forming sanitariums, as well as that of compensating the owners of cattle, have both fallen to the ground.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon




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