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Recent Examples of halfway house
Authorities have identified the man who was shot and severely wounded after allegedly charging a police officer outside an Escondido halfway house last week while armed with a knife and a 2-foot-long stick.
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
The man had previously been arrested four times for driving while drunk but had mostly avoided serious punishment—a pattern that continued when he was found guilty of vehicular manslaughter for Lightner’s death but given a sentence of only twenty-one months, with a portion spent in a halfway house.
—Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Jim Crockett in a halfway house.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2026
Now, the money is often landing in what’s essentially a halfway house, with no obligation to get out.
—Ray Madoff, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
The man had previously been arrested four times for driving while drunk but had mostly avoided serious punishment—a pattern that continued when he was found guilty of vehicular manslaughter for Lightner’s death but given a sentence of only twenty-one months, with a portion spent in a halfway house.
—Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Jim Crockett in a halfway house.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2026
Now, the money is often landing in what’s essentially a halfway house, with no obligation to get out.
—Ray Madoff, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
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Israel has struck sites in Beirut's suburbs and issued a blanket warning for residents south of the Litani River -- an area in southern Lebanon stretching to the border with Israel -- to evacuate their homes, but had not previously issued a blanket evacuation order for Beirut's southern suburbs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Mar. 2026
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The film was a commercial hit and solidified Universal Pictures’ reputation as the home of horror.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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In the most extreme case, a single medical director has been listed as working simultaneously at 45 different hospices.—
Graham Kates,
CBS News,
9 Mar. 2026
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But also, the way that the hospice nurses are so compassionate and calm and present, but at the same time detached.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
6 Mar. 2026
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Investigators, however, have not been able to find records of patients from the time the sanatorium closed.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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These prescriptive measures took place in isolated medical facilities known as sanatoriums, and some of the fancier ones resembled a cross between a hospital and a resort.—
Outside,
Outside,
31 Jan. 2026
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He was injured in a car accident in New York City following the 1912 World Series, and two months later died aboard a train while enroute to California to recuperate at a sanitarium.—
Libby Cierzniak,
IndyStar,
20 Feb. 2026
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The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Feb. 2026
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The technology is now in more than 100 state veteran homes and Veterans Affairs medical centers, bringing the world back to those who served around the globe.—
Carolyn Gusoff,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Multiple staff members at the medical center said that the boy and his mom had just left the Brookdale Urgent Care Center, located on the other side of Rockaway Parkway from the main hospital, moments before he was struck.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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