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halfway house

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as in home

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Recent Examples of halfway house Located in Rimini, San Patrignano is the largest halfway house in Europe and has been offering people with drug addictions the tools to build a new life since 1978. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026 Ryan will play Lenny’s ex-boyfriend Boone, a recovering addict from a well-off Dallas family who’s living at a halfway house while trying to rebuild his life. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026 The bothy is now used as a halfway house for players wanting snacks or refreshment. — Zach Schenfisch, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 He was released in April and is now living in a halfway house in Gainesville. — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for halfway house

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Signs of this history were on display amid all the adventurous modern art that made Mandell’s home seem like an elegant, circus-like wonderland.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
In addition to women’s lifestyle apparel, the brand does kidswear and home, including a bedding assortment and such tabletop items as napkins, tablecloths, runners and place mats.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of home

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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

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That quickly comes in handy when Clancy, a sadistic guard, tells the inmates they’re being shipped to the infamous sanitarium Saint Mabyn’s.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
The estate later transitioned into a sanitarium that hosted the likes of Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026

Definition of sanitarium

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Its largest medical center, Al-Shifa Hospital, was besieged, bombed, and raided, under false pretexts, resulting in hundreds of deaths inside.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
Michael and Susan Dell, whose fortune comes from his computer hardware company, gave the University of Texas at Austin $750 million for its medical center.

— Genevieve Shaker, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of medical center

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