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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
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Sitting in their respective homes in Utah and New York, the former costars are seeing each other for the first time in years.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Richards, who worked as a youth pastor in Shawnee, Kan., stabbed his wife and five children on Sept. 16, 2023, before lighting their home on fire, the Johnson County Post reported, citing a probable cause statement.—
Liam Quinn,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Through her work in hospice care, McFadden has gained invaluable lessons that extend beyond her role as a nurse.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Wanting their love story to end on a happy note, Molly and Neighbor Guy say goodbye for the last time soon before Molly begins hospice care.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Camp and sanitarium admissions were voluntary, but may have been subject to family pressures.—
Neuroskeptic,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2018
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Dozens of striking mental health care workers chanted and marched Tuesday outside a Kaiser Permanente medical center on a busy strip of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2025
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On Navajo Nation, the crowd that gathered at the foot of Window Rock, a memorial, commended him for his devoted attention to issues of outdated medical centers, lack of water infrastructure and inadequate access to healthy foods.—
Cheyenne Haslett,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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