sanatorium
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The novel’s first-person, postwar frame involves another absurdist twist: Franz Wilzek, a resident of an Austrian sanatorium, is corralled into a live television interview.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 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
This was because they had arrived from a sanatorium used to recuperate respiratory patients.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2022
Between 1947 and 1951, the castle served as a sanatorium for Holocaust survivors and displaced people.
From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2022
As I lay there in my white hotel bed feeling lonely and weak, I thought I was up in that sanatorium in the Adirondacks, and I felt like a heel of the worst sort.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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