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sanatorium

[san-uh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-] / ˌsæn əˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr- /




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The ship eventually docked in Genoa and he was taken to a sanatorium while the rest of the team continued on to Romania.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

The relentless 10-month war has prompted a local commander to transform a Soviet-era sanatorium into a recovery center for servicemen to treat both mental and physical ailments.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Eliot escaped into work, a banker by day and literary critic by night, until he suffered a breakdown that sent him to a sanatorium in Switzerland.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2022

This was because they had arrived from a sanatorium used to recuperate respiratory patients.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2022

Anna Djvorak was convinced that the doctor had miraculously saved her son’s life by not sending him to the tuberculosis sanatorium back in 1903.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

The old sanatoria in the Alps to which European TB patients lucky enough to have wealthy relatives might be sent focused on cleanliness, fresh air and sunlight, ample nutritious food and rest.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025

Crawford estimates that in 1925 alone the couple spent a third of their income on doctors, medicines, and stays in hospitals or sanatoria.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022

The plaintiff in the case is John Pambrun, 77, a First Nations man who spent nearly six years of his childhood in Indian hospitals and sanatoria.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2018

Rehab centers have the feel of pre-modern sanatoria.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2016

We know more of Greece than of other countries; there the shrines of AEsculapius were in many ways what we now call sanatoria.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Some of Kyiv's most vulnerable citizens – the elderly and women with young children – are being offered places in converted sanatoriums and rehabilitation centres in the city's forested outskirts.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

His tuberculosis, which before it killed him at age 40 led to rest “cures” at sanatoriums notable chiefly for their ineffectiveness?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The southern town of Yalta was the prime holiday destination during Soviet times, with many sanatoriums built in and around it.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

Located in the Carpathian foothills, Morshyn's economy is dependent on tourists visiting its hotels and sanatoriums and was hit badly by the first wave of lockdowns last year, Mayor Ruslan Ilnytsky told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2021

"Poor Milly" had a horror of sanatoriums, so he was going to take her to some quiet place on the south coast.

From From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes


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