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sanitarium

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




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Then he was committed to a sanitarium in 1916 and was never the same.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025

She even adopted a Ukrainian teenager, Filip Holovnya, from among the children taken to the sanitarium.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023

Their mother is stuck in a nearby sanitarium, suffering from an undisclosed illness.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2023

A decrepit drive-in movie theater screens a 1947 noir spoof, “My Favorite Brunette,” for seemingly no other reason, possibly, than that Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour get locked up in a sanitarium.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2022

Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise?

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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