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hospitalize

[hos-pi-tl-ahyz] / ˈhɒs pɪ tlˌaɪz /


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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

Like many other states, Idaho can hospitalize people against their will under a court-ordered involuntary mental health commitment.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Mabel Alvarez Benedicks told the AP that agents repeatedly ignored pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter as she felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk.

From Washington Times ● May 22, 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

I’ve missed work for appointments and used vacation days when she was hospitalized.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The “All Night Long” singer-songwriter was hospitalized to receive treatment for an irregular heartbeat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Nearly 13,000 people across 21 states had been sickened, 570 hospitalized and two had died after an outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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

In October he fell ill with fever and dysentery and was hospitalized for eleven days, during which he lost considerable weight and passed his time reading Atlanta newspapers and playing chess with other boys.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

And only a small percentage of people are masking or taking other precautions in public despite a new wave of covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus infections hospitalizing and killing seniors.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2024

Experts say the decision about hospitalizing someone with clinical depression is often based on the severity and duration of symptoms, insurance coverage and whether they are a danger to themselves.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023

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

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




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