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Recent Examples of halfway house
According to court records, Waltz served nearly six months of the 10-month sentence in a federal prison in Kentucky before being released to a halfway house for four weeks and home confinement for two more.
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Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 11 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 11 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
Noun
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Moïse, who said she was born and raised in Haiti and had lived at the family home since 2015, described having as many as 30 to 50 guards around the home at all times.—
Tania Francois,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2026
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On March 4, North Miami Beach police officers rushed to a 911 call of a teen lying on the ground at a home.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the video, YouTuber Nick Shirley and his team go around to different locations in California that are either daycare or hospice centers and allege there is fraud.—
Charlotte Hazard,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Mar. 2026
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Use the proceeds from his drug empire to establish and fund a groundbreaking hospice-care facility in Portland aimed solely at victims of a new disease, AIDS, that was tearing through the country.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Patients with life-threatening traumas are being diverted to other area hospitals, including Jersey City and Hoboken medical centers.—
John Dias,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Patients who need specialized prostate cancer surgery often travel to larger medical centers such as London or Madrid.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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