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sanitarium

[san-i-tair-ee-uhm] / ˌsæn ɪˈtɛər i əm /




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I have always loved the idea of a sanitarium: Swaddle me in blankets like a chic burrito, please, and tilt my deck chair toward the Swiss Alps or whatever hills you’ve got.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2023

Doctors urged him to enter a sanitarium for treatment, but Slim refused and headed for the desert, although doctors warned him he would be dead in a year.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

Among them was a TB sanitarium that became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022

Not long after, Post opened a competing sanitarium in Battle Creek and a cereal company — based on the health foods promoted at the center that changed the course of packaged-food history.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Hayden was discreetly driven from the park in one of the fair’s innovative English ambulances with quiet rubber tires and placed in a sanitarium for a period of enforced rest.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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