halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house She was released from prison after 10 months and 21 days, in October 2023, and now lives in a halfway house. Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2024 The result, too many prisoners are spending more time in costly institutions than in halfway houses. Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024 He was also fined $50,000, ordered to pay back taxes and interest, sentenced to three months in a halfway house, and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service. Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 The British spy series follows the misfits as Slough House, a halfway house for MI5 agents who screwed up in some way or another and have been put into a kind of probation. Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for halfway house 
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Noun
  • Additionally check for damage to systems like plumbing, electrical, or heating plus, trees, fences, or damage to the exterior of your home like a deck.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Antiaircraft fire kept the bombers so high, however, that aim was difficult to manage, and the bombs fell indiscriminately, destroying more than 4,300 homes while damaging three-quarters of the city's factories.
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Bill Husted, who charmed and inflamed Denver’s elite as a columnist for both The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, died at his Denver home in hospice care on Saturday at age 76.
    John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Per reports, Fritz died on September 30 from the complications of a stroke while in hospice care.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • With Hans Castorp still in his first week at the sanatorium, Mann abandoned the manuscript as Europe plunged into unprecedented destruction.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Mieczysław Wojnicz, a young Polish engineer in training, has arrived at the sanatorium in Göbersdorf, a resort town in the Silesian mountains near the current Polish-Czech border.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2024
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 problem is particularly troublesome in areas of the country without doctors, nurses, midwives or medical centers specializing in maternity care.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The Look to Michigan campaign will raise funds for the three UM campuses at Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint as well as its intercollegiate athletics program and academic medical center.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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