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His medical team said all he needed was oxygen, and convalescing there was better than hospital with all its infections.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

Pink needed two surgeries and almost two months of recovery at the same aviary where Blue is convalescing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2024

He handed out plush toys to convalescing children at a medical trauma center.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Artist Yuri Annenkov, summoned to do his portrait at the dacha where he was convalescing, said he had “the helpless, twisted, infantile smile of a man who had fallen into childhood.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2024

I rearranged the house where I was going to put each one while they were convalescing.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez