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
“Omicron still hospitalizes and kills lots of people,” Geoghegan says.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024
Heat kills an average of 34 people a year and hospitalizes hundreds more in Miami-Dade, records showed.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 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
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
A fire at a nursing home in Chile that had previously violated regulations has killed 16 elderly residents and left others hospitalized, authorities said Saturday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
By January 2012, more than seven thousand deaths from cholera had been reported, and thousands of people were hospitalized.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Unlike the fall-winter surge, which devastated Southern California’s denser urban communities, the latest Delta wave hammered the state’s rural and agricultural areas — infecting, hospitalizing and killing residents of some counties at unprecedented levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
“If delta wasn’t making children sick and hospitalizing them, it might make sense to take more time to look at the safety profile,” said Morita, executive vice president for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2021
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
But hospitalizing him on oxygen might have been fruitless — his lungs were “stiffening” and perhaps unable to absorb it.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2020
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
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