halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house He was sentenced to two years on probation and 30 days in a halfway house. Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025 By then, Zhao had been out of a federal halfway house in Long Beach, California, for less than three months, having served a short sentence after his guilty plea. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 July 2025 Bracey was previously arrested at the age of 48 and spent three years in prison, after which he was released to a halfway house, according to a blurb in the 2017 annual report of Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery. Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2025 However, as of today, the capacity of halfway houses remains largely the same. Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for halfway house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
Noun
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    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Many of these homes come equipped with enough amenities to comfortably live in, along with additional perks like outfitted bathrooms, solar panels, and outdoor spaces.
    Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The high-school reunion is, as far as popular imagination tells it, dead—or, at the least, in extended hospice care.
    Jordan Michelman, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • At age 96, on Thursday morning under hospice care at the UHealth Tower hospital in Miami, Schaecter died a warrior for those causes.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now, the sanatorium hosts public and private tours and paranormal investigations for those interested in exploring the building.
    Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Just like today, drug addiction often started with painkillers given for an injury, as was the case with hunky actor Wallace Reid, who died in 1923 at a sanitarium where he was being treated for morphine addiction after a train accident.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 23 Dec. 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • With 20% of children infected with measles requiring hospitalization, how will medical centers maintain adequate staffing?
    Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Now the medical center is among 35 rural hospitals – the most of any state – that University of North Carolina researchers identified as being financially vulnerable to closure.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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