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sanatorium

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




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She shared how Martin was without parents from a young age and was "sent alone to a sanatorium in London for two years" after being diagnosed with tuberculosis.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Helgi Reykdal, a criminology graduate student, is researching two unsolved 1983 deaths at a former tuberculosis sanatorium.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2024

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

Buddy's mother had even arranged for me to be given a job as a waitress at the TB sanatorium that summer so Buddy wouldn't be lonely.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

If the patients have money, which is very often the case, they prove profitable customers of the "nerve-specialist," and likewise of the endless chain of private sanatoria for nervous diseases.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

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

"The Moscow region is already ready to accept 500 Belgorod residents at one of its sanatoriums," he said, adding that transport, food and accommodation would all be provided for free.

From Reuters Oct. 21, 2022

In the steam baths of local sanatoriums, Andropov and Gorbachev shared their fear that if reforms were not executed in the Soviet Union the economy was destined for disaster.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2022

Like tuberculosis sanatoriums, the clean, smooth surfaces of the architecture of this era offered an anesthetic to disease and trauma.

From Slate Apr. 19, 2020

At Arlington Heights there are several well-known sanatoriums.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various




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