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halfway house

noun

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as in home

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Recent Examples of halfway house He was released in April and is now living in a halfway house in Gainesville. — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026 She was released to a halfway house in Alabama in January. — Christie Thompson, NPR, 17 June 2026 After leaving the halfway house, Dixon moved into a property that his sister owned. — Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026 Democrats call for closure The two-story facility, built in 2000 and sitting on nearly 227,000 square feet, served as an immigrant detention center between 2011 and 2017 before becoming a drug treatment center and halfway house. — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 30 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for halfway house

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The men entered the home with guns, found no drugs and fatally shot the three residents, who lived just across the street from Norman, the records show.

— MICHAEL GRACZYK, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
To make matters worse, Leigh’s home had been invaded by musicians.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of home

Noun

Vanderhoff was transferred to in-home hospice care at the end of July.

— Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2026
West believes Gilkar and Ahmed plan to put the baby into hospice care in California rather than moving forward with his potentially life-saving surgeries, according to the filing.

— Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of hospice

Noun

The daughter, incidentally, is a tuberculosis patient in a Swiss sanatorium (shades of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, which had appeared to great acclaim only five years earlier).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
The site was home to a sanatorium for internal diseases in the early 20th century, founded by the physician Theodor Büdingen.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026

Definition of sanatorium

Noun

After deciding to start a family, my husband and I sought prenatal counseling on the safety of my medication regimen in pregnancy and my potential for relapse at a university medical center.

— Meg LeDuc, STAT, 23 Sep. 2026
Gress was taken to a local medical center, where he was pronounced dead.

— Katie Houlis, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of medical center

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