halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house Jalloh had been transferred from a prison facility to a residential reentry center, or halfway house, in August 2024, and released from federal custody later that year, according to court records. ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026 Phay’s family bumped into Duprey at a restaurant when he’d been moved to the halfway house. Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 2 Mar. 2026 There was Pounce the cat, who lived in a halfway house made from an empty box of Cheez-Its, and Neon the seahorse, who had stolen $10 million from Wells Fargo. Maria Zorn, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2026 In August 2014, Mundt was released from prison to a halfway house after serving half of his eight-year sentence, the Courier Journal reported. Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 20 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for halfway house
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Noun
  • While scouting for a personal mountain home during Covid, the family discovered that the old Aspen Hotel was for sale.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2026
  • Homeownership feels increasingly out of reach for many Americans, but not for this group of creatures, which slithered into an uninhabited home in Arkansas, much to the chagrin of the realtor trying to sell it.
    Drew Pittock, USA Today, 5 June 2026
Noun
  • State regulators have suspended hundreds of hospice licenses amid allegations of fraudulent billing and phantom patient schemes.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • In a Medi-Cal hospice case charged this April in California, prosecutors said operators bought SSNs from breach dumps and enrolled non-California residents as terminally ill hospice patients, then billed the state for visits that never happened.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • My favorite hike happened to start at my favorite hotel, Rooms Kazbegi, an old Soviet sanatorium that’s been given a glow-up.
    Lori Rackl, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
  • The Inhalatorium, the feature-length animation debut by director and animator Bára Anna Stejskalová, follows a 13-year-old girl who arrives at a mountain sanatorium to treat her asthma.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • After the fair, the Spanish consulate donated the building to the City of Chicago for use as a fresh-air sanitarium.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • One tricky problem Harvey Kellogg tried to solve at the sanitarium was treating the many patients there who suffered from severe gastrointestinal issues.
    Heather Bushman, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Woods and her nephew were taken to a nearby medical center where the boy was kept overnight for observation, according to WECT.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
  • The Penske driver was able to get out of the car unaided before being checked and cleared at the medical center.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 24 May 2026

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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