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sanitarium

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




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By the time he was released, on May 26, his children had been flown to a sanitarium called Poliany, a strictly guarded institution near Moscow.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023

The Soledar mine had become a tourist attraction, complete with a sanitarium built around the unproven health benefits of breathing salt-infused air.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Italianate-Mission in style, boxy with projecting cornice and flat roofline, it belonged to the developer, who in 1925 turned his private villa into a sanitarium and orphanage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022

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

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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