halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house The detention center The two-story building is next to a county prison formerly operated as a halfway house. Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025 The funding was directed to charitable organizations focused on youth, veterans and offering shelters for sober living and halfway houses, according to a statement from the committee. Alison Dirr, jsonline.com, 31 July 2025 As a result, inmates who could be placed in community halfway houses or home confinement end up staying in prison longer than necessary. Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025 He was sentenced to 3½ years in prison in 2023, but was released to a halfway house in Los Angeles last year. Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 15 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for halfway house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
Noun
  • The part of the celebrations that most interests my home entertainment channel, though, is the launch on October 7 of the film’s new 4K Blu-ray edition.
    John Archer, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The first box was installed in the company's home state of Indiana in April 2016.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jannsen has been working in hospice care for 33 years.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Rahaman Ali, 82, died Aug. 1 after being in hospice care at Norton Audubon Hospital since July 19.
    Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Maybe Pippa has a nervous breakdown and checks herself into a high-end spa/sanatorium in western Massachusetts.
    John Kenney, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Camp and sanitarium admissions were voluntary, but may have been subject to family pressures.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • If more students knew this information, far fewer would end up blindsided in their college medical center’s exam rooms.
    Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The journalists were in a tent outside the al-Shifa hospital, the main medical center in Gaza, which has has been largely destroyed over the past 22 months of fighting.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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