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Recent Examples of halfway house
According to Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy, Shah could either have been released to her home or transferred to a halfway house to complete the remaining portion of her sentence under supervision.
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Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
Community confinement means the inmate is in either home confinement or a Residential Reentry Center (RRC, or halfway house).
—Tracy Wright , Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
Shah will spend another year detained either at home or in a halfway house, though the FBP did not specify which due to safety and privacy concerns.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2025
Both brothers were sentenced to three decades behind bars, but T was released in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, while Big Meech was later let out last October to finish his sentence in a halfway house in Florida.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
Community confinement means the inmate is in either home confinement or a Residential Reentry Center (RRC, or halfway house).
—Tracy Wright , Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
Shah will spend another year detained either at home or in a halfway house, though the FBP did not specify which due to safety and privacy concerns.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2025
Both brothers were sentenced to three decades behind bars, but T was released in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, while Big Meech was later let out last October to finish his sentence in a halfway house in Florida.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
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The Tennessee National Guard said about 170 soldiers and airmen were assisting with recovery efforts, including helping more than 200 people stranded in vehicles and homes and providing rides to nearly 300 emergency and health care workers.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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Extreme heat fuels out of control bushfires Bushfires, fueled by the soaring temperatures, have menaced towns in the state of Victoria, prompting evacuations as volunteer firefighters attempted to douse flames around homes.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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In addition to bringing medical care to remote mountain villages half a world away, Halifax has ministered to the dying in hospice, worked with the homeless in New Mexico, cared for prisoners on death row, and led countless protests for peace.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Those facing these difficult end-of-life decisions may benefit from seeking out veterinary palliative and hospice care, which is increasingly available.—
David L. Weimer,
The Conversation,
23 Jan. 2026
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It was conceived in 1912 as a sanatorium for Austro-Hungarian aristocrats but lay dormant for years.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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Negligence is rendering the old sanatorium unhabitable, bit by bit, as a widening foundational crack threatens to cleave the building in two.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
28 Nov. 2025
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The phrase is sometimes attributed to Hippocrates, but probably comes from Edward Livingston Trudeau, a physician who founded a nineteenth-century tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York, when antibiotics did not exist.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2025
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Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks?—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Robert Gleason, lead of parent advisory at the Rady Gender Clinic, noted that San Diego’s only medical center dedicated to serving children and adolescents created the resource only a decade ago and only after many years of advocacy from families.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Jan. 2026
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The state has since stated that the medical center has corrected the deficiencies.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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