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Recent Examples of halfway house
If granted supervised release, Brom would no longer be required to reside in a Department of Corrections facility — a halfway house.
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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
Shah will spend another year detained either at home or in a halfway house, though the FBP did not specify which due to safety and privacy concerns.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2025
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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
Shah will spend another year detained either at home or in a halfway house, though the FBP did not specify which due to safety and privacy concerns.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
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Google, which owns the smart home system Nest, is now assisting law enforcement in that investigation.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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In Spain's southern Andalusia region, close to 4,000 people evacuated their homes as a result of the ongoing storm, and dozens of roads remained closed because of flooding and landslides.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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On Thursday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the arrests of seven people accused of hospice fraud in Monterey County.—
Linh Tat,
Daily News,
8 Feb. 2026
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Scores of providers sprang up along a corridor stretching west from the San Gabriel Valley through the San Fernando Valley, which now has the highest concentration of hospices in the nation.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
6 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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It was conceived in 1912 as a sanatorium for Austro-Hungarian aristocrats but lay dormant for years.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 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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Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks?—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 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 17 Feb. 2026.
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