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Recent Examples of halfway house
Now, the money is often landing in what’s essentially a halfway house, with no obligation to get out.
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Ray Madoff, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
If granted supervised release, Brom would no longer be required to reside in a Department of Corrections facility — a halfway house.
—Matthew Stolle, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Ray Madoff, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
If granted supervised release, Brom would no longer be required to reside in a Department of Corrections facility — a halfway house.
—Matthew Stolle, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
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The weapon kept in the Murphys’ home just east of Declo on a large farm property near the Raft River area was never recovered by police after Whitney Murphy’s death in October 2014.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Feb. 2026
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Lauren Betts led the Bruins with 23 points, one of five UCLA players to score in double figures in the home victory at Pauley Pavilion.—
Felicia Keller,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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If hospice patients can grow and change at the end of life, why not grow and change now?—
Arianna Huffington,
Time,
16 Feb. 2026
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The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Feb. 2026
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Investigators, however, have not been able to find records of patients from the time the sanatorium closed.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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These prescriptive measures took place in isolated medical facilities known as sanatoriums, and some of the fancier ones resembled a cross between a hospital and a resort.—
Outside,
Outside,
31 Jan. 2026
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The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Feb. 2026
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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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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.—
Evan MacDonald,
Houston Chronicle,
13 Feb. 2026
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Shpiner proposes a new network of databases housed by state-level consortiums and medical centers.—
O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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