halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house Caudill spent just 12 days in the halfway house before authorities moved to send him to prison, court records show. Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2025 Justin Eichorn, a former Republican state senator of Grand Rapids, Minn., received the OK from U.S. Magistrate Judge Shannon Elkins to be released from jail to a halfway house pending trial on charges accusing him of trying to solicit a 17-year-old girl for prostitution. Arkansas Online, 30 Mar. 2025 Dixon, who pleaded guilty to the nonviolent offense in 2000, was ordered to pay restitution and spend 30 days in a halfway house, court documents show. Kimmy Yam, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2025 More modern sources suggest she was involved with the Minnie Barton Home, a safe haven for women released from jail that also served as a halfway house for young offenders and victims of abuse. Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for halfway house
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Noun
  • More than half a dozen tornadoes have been confirmed, including one in Marshall County, Oklahoma, that left two homes completely destroyed and damaged about 20 others.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • According to the lawsuit, the leak caused gas to seep into nearby homes and businesses unchecked through the air and top soil — including the Cunningham home a block away — for more than 3 1/2 hours.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In September 2024, Fritz died of complications from a stroke while in hospice care.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The people helping your mother with her hospice care surely can suggest some resources for you.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The ongoing war is not a focus of the doc but rears its ugly head like a pin threatening to burst the sanatorium bubble when the alarms go off.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2025
  • In the wake of his disturbing discovery, Wojnicz tries to focus on the concrete rituals of sanatorium life: the cold showers and long hikes, the simple food and hard drinking, the long debates with his fellow patients about history and philosophy.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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
  • The hospitals involved included one academic medical center and one community institution from each of the two health systems.
    Michael L. Millenson, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The partnership started in 2012 and comprises 25 hospitals and 15 medical centers.
    William Jones, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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