halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house Arenas was ordered to serve two years probation (beginning with 30 days in a halfway house), complete 400 hours of community service and pay a $5,000 fine, per ESPN. Skyler Trepel, People.com, 7 May 2025 Mallory finished rehab and entered a halfway house, while still on Suboxone. Ethan Brooks, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2025 The result was that many prisoners who had dates to go to a halfway house or home confinement, both monitored by halfway house staff, had their dates moved. Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 Those in halfway houses are expected to have a job during the day. Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for halfway house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
Noun
  • The Leo full moon also stirs up themes of home and family for you on the 12th, pushing you to reevaluate what security truly means to you.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
  • Berkeley, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina, also embrace work from home with a total 29% and 28% remote workers, respectively.
    Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • End-of-life patients in palliative or hospice care would also qualify for the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP), as the state’s medical cannabis program is known.
    A.J. Herrington, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health.
    Jariel Arvin, Miami Herald, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Any coast in a storm, then, and onward to the sanatorium.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • Nearly two dozen former sanatoriums are still standing in the town, housing a dwindling number of families like Ms. Bondarevi’s.
    Oscar Espinosa, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 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
  • Visits to the ship's medical center can be pricey and lengthy (there’s often just one doctor available at a time for thousands of passengers, and the wait can get long).
    Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2025
  • In addition to the main hospital at 3200 Vine St., the VA operates a medical center in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and seven clinics elsewhere, serving close to 43,000 patients in 15 counties, according to the report.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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