halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house The detention center The two-story building is next to a county prison formerly operated as a halfway house. Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025 The funding was directed to charitable organizations focused on youth, veterans and offering shelters for sober living and halfway houses, according to a statement from the committee. Alison Dirr, jsonline.com, 31 July 2025 As a result, inmates who could be placed in community halfway houses or home confinement end up staying in prison longer than necessary. Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025 He was sentenced to 3½ years in prison in 2023, but was released to a halfway house in Los Angeles last year. Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 15 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for halfway house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
Noun
  • The part of the celebrations that most interests my home entertainment channel, though, is the launch on October 7 of the film’s new 4K Blu-ray edition.
    John Archer, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Shannen Doherty’s longtime home nestled within the exclusive Winding Way enclave above Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway has just hit the market for $19.5 million.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Morgan was in hospice care and died Monday in her sleep of natural causes in Naples, Florida, her family announced.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Director of Jesus Movement at the King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church Wanda McIntyre said Rahaman Ali, who died Aug. 1, first visited the hospital July 19 and remained in hospice care at Norton Audubon.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Everyone knows of a brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, a friend, grandparent or great-grandparent who has vanished at the schools, at the Indian hospitals or sanatoriums, in lunatic asylums or from the streets.
    Tanya Talaga July 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
  • Maybe Pippa has a nervous breakdown and checks herself into a high-end spa/sanatorium in western Massachusetts.
    John Kenney, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • Bolsheviks shot its monks in the first years of the Soviet Union, and converted the complex into a sanitarium and a cinema.
    Ainara Tiefenthäler, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Camp and sanitarium admissions were voluntary, but may have been subject to family pressures.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • The Context Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is the world's largest multi-service military medical center, according to its website.
    Jenna Sundel Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
  • That footnote could end up being quite a kick to the rears of grantees, awardees and contractors in universities, medical centers and other research organizations around the country.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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