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hospitalized

  • past participle
    of hospitalize.
    hospitalize
    verb (used with object)
    to place in a hospital for medical care or observation.
  • past tense form
    of hospitalize.
    hospitalize
    verb (used with object)
    to place in a hospital for medical care or observation.

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James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate from Texas, denied rumors that he had been secretly hospitalized in an Ohio psychiatric facility, calling it "the craziest thing I've ever heard."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

It wasn’t until later that they learned he had been hospitalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Patients with blood cancers who receive stem cell transplants are often hospitalized for several weeks while undergoing chemotherapy and antibiotic treatment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The three soldiers remain hospitalized with lower-body injuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

He slid the needle into the forearm of a woman who’d recently been hospitalized for leukemia, then pushed the plunger, injecting about five million of Henrietta’s cells into her arm.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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