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- noun Plural form of
infirmary .
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Examples
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Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden sent thousands of gifts and photo-cards with pictures of the princess and her children with Christmas greetings to war prisoners recovering in infirmaries.
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The lowest part of the shelter, four catwalks below my billet and just over the engineering spaces, was cut like a pie into four quarters-sanitary units, two sick bays, for 'men and for women and both crowded~~L~and jammed into a little corner between the infirmaries was a sorry pretense for a nursery, not more than two meters in any dimension.
Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963
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Prison employees working in high-risk areas such as infirmaries will be retested every six months.
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The building is one of only three surviving Georgian workhouses in London, and has close ties to the Victorian social reformer Joseph Rogers, the workhouse's medical officer, who fought for improvements including separate infirmaries for the workhouse's many sick residents.
Please, sir, save workhouse tied to 'Oliver Twist,' Britain asked 2011
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How many infirmaries and clinics could these funds buy?
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Why I Oppose the New York Park51 Initiative 2010
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How many infirmaries and clinics could these funds buy?
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Why I Oppose the New York Park51 Initiative 2010
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Even then, while Hezbollah and Hamas launched their rockets from nurseries and infirmaries, Israel behaved with unparalleled restraint, doing everything in its power to forewarn civilians of coming offensives and then using state-of-the-art munitions with laser-like precision to reduce, as much as humanly possibly, collateral civilian casualties.
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How many infirmaries and clinics could these funds buy?
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Why I Oppose the New York Park51 Initiative 2010
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Even then, while Hezbollah and Hamas launched their rockets from nurseries and infirmaries, Israel behaved with unparalleled restraint, doing everything in its power to forewarn civilians of coming offensives and then using state-of-the-art munitions with laser-like precision to reduce, as much as humanly possibly, collateral civilian casualties.
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How many infirmaries and clinics could these funds buy?
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Why I Oppose the New York Park51 Initiative 2010
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