hospitalize
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Many were galvanized by the police’s decision over the weekend to forcibly hospitalize a prominent activist who has been on a hunger strike in support of the movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
When he gets unruly, they discharge or hospitalize him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
The girl’s mother had previously told The Associated Press that agents had repeatedly ignored her pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter, who had a history of heart problems and sick cell anemia.
From Washington Times ● May 21, 2023
Adams announced a plan in November to hospitalize some severely mentally ill people involuntarily, citing the city’s “moral obligation to act.”
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
I cannot get her out of this steel block unless I hospitalize her, perhaps operate.
From Sinister Paradise by Robert Moore Williams
In the United States, it hospitalizes 2% to 3% of infants annually, mostly between 0 and 5 months of age.
From Science Magazine ● May 18, 2023
Every year, it hospitalizes an average of 1 to 2 percent of children younger than 6 months.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022
She and other infectious-disease specialists are also revisiting their response to RSV, a common virus that hospitalizes about 60,000 children younger than 5 each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022
“Each year, the flu sickens millions and hospitalizes hundreds of thousands of people during the fall and winter months. The elderly are especially hard hit every year,” said Peter Kirk, Sermo CEO.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
Still, asthma kills about 4,000 people a year and hospitalizes at least half a million.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2010
Officials said six people were hospitalized but have since recovered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
I’ve missed work for appointments and used vacation days when she was hospitalized.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
In June, McConnell suffered from a “bad fall” that left him hospitalized.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Even if someone is involuntarily hospitalized, he usually only gets a week or less, not enough time to be stabilized, and then is dumped on the street again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Head was hospitalized, there was a lot of paperwork involved, etc. etc.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
It is still killing roughly 1,000 Americans each week and hospitalizing even more.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
Last year, a sedan that had been struck by another car slammed into a homeless encampment in Koreatown, hospitalizing four people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
DKA has been hospitalizing and killing more diabetics in recent years.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022
By the end of 2020, nearly 10% of Congress had contracted the coronavirus, temporarily hospitalizing at least two lawmakers and forcing a number of lawmakers to quarantine.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2021
Mother was confused, but she always has the good manners to be hospitalizing even to perfect strangers, so she asked them in and told me to run squeeze some orange juice.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
