halfway houses

Definition of halfway housesnext
plural of halfway house

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway houses
Noun
  • And similar scenes of fear and dispossession played out across the country, as Japanese Americans were forced to leave behind their homes and livelihoods and bused to remote camps.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • If an agency is allowed to give itself the right to enter people's homes, the consequences could go far beyond immigration enforcement.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In addition, the California Department of Public Health revoked the licenses of more than 280 hospices over the past two years and has identified about 300 more hospices under review for possible license revocation, according to the governor’s office.
    Linh Tat, Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • The nation’s 150+ academic medical centers already track disease patterns for research.
    Robert B. Shpiner, STAT, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Hospitals and medical centers can be far flung, making even routine visits to doctors' offices a challenge.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 9 Feb. 2026
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“Halfway houses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20houses. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.

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