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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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Google, which owns the smart home system Nest, is now assisting law enforcement in that investigation.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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In Spain's southern Andalusia region, close to 4,000 people evacuated their homes as a result of the ongoing storm, and dozens of roads remained closed because of flooding and landslides.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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The son of college football coaching legend Lou Holtz on Sunday shared an update on his father after he was admitted to hospice care earlier in the week.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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Jo Ann Weiss Sawitz Bass, the matriarch of the landmark Joe’s Stone Crab, died Saturday in hospice at her Miami Beach home across the street from her family’s restaurant.—
Howard Cohen,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Feb. 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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In Wisconsin, the Department of Veterans Affairs saw the steepest cuts, including the firing of at least 20 people from VA medical centers and facilities in Milwaukee and Madison.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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His work often focuses on patients who rely on the Texas Medical Center, medical breakthroughs and the health care professionals who work in the largest medical center in the world.—
Julian Gill,
Houston Chronicle,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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