sanitarium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium He was injured in a car accident in New York City following the 1912 World Series, and two months later died aboard a train while enroute to California to recuperate at a sanitarium. — Libby Cierzniak, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026 The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war. — Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026 The phrase is sometimes attributed to Hippocrates, but probably comes from Edward Livingston Trudeau, a physician who founded a nineteenth-century tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York, when antibiotics did not exist. — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025 Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks? — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
Noun
  • The daughter, incidentally, is a tuberculosis patient in a Swiss sanatorium (shades of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, which had appeared to great acclaim only five years earlier).
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The site was home to a sanatorium for internal diseases in the early 20th century, founded by the physician Theodor Büdingen.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • When Arizona removed Medicaid patients' access to podiatrists, diabetic foot infection hospital admissions increased 38 percent, hospital stays grew 29 percent, and charges rose 45 percent.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • For example, in 2023, commercial insurers paid more than $2,500 on average for colonoscopies performed in a hospital outpatient department in Massachusetts, according to state data.
    — Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Typically, the agency has pursued health fraud cases centered on providers, clinics, home health agencies, and hospices.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The men were also ordered to return more than 300 million baht (about $9 million) to the hospice at Wat Phra Bat Namphu temple in the central province of Lopburi, where Alongkot had served as abbot.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Established in 1855 as a military post to fight against the Mescalero Apache, the fort went on to play a minor role in the Civil War and later served as a tuberculosis sanitorium and a World War II internment camp.
    — Allison Savage Bates, Denver Post, 19 July 2026
  • Italian designer Matteo Thun was responsible for the makeover of what used to be a sanitorium.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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