halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house Gary Oldman is phenomenal as the head of Slough House, a sort of halfway house for British spies who made mistakes in more prominent positions. Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025 Whether interventions take the form of shelter beds, halfway houses, rehab facilities, or monitored, legal campsites, is the business of those local municipalities. Chelsea Cantilli, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025 The new policy, effective April 21, caps halfway house placement at just 60 days for most inmates and 125 days for those completing the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP). Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 That may also ripple down to prisoners who rely on staff to get them to the halfway house. Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for halfway house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
Noun
  • Clark recalled a 2011 incident when she was allegedly forced by Combs and a member of his security to go to rapper Kid Cudi's home.
    Janelle Griffith, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • The furnished homes, which include one-to-three-bed apartments, one-bed duplexes, and four-bed ultra-luxurious penthouses, will have interiors that evoke the signature glamor associated with the Waldorf Astoria brand.
    Kissa Castaneda, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Ferguson, 75, died Friday while in home hospice care, said WMAQ-Ch. 5 news anchor and reporter Marion Brooks, a close friend.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • Tom was in hospice care and Georgia smothered him as a kind of twisted gift to Cynthia.
    Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Nearly two dozen former sanatoriums are still standing in the town, housing a dwindling number of families like Ms. Bondarevi’s.
    Oscar Espinosa, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025
  • The overall look was sort of old-school sanatorium, slightly updated but with zero indulgence to luxury—definitely not a place for flaunting Birkins.
    Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2025
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
  • By 2019, a faculty committee was brainstorming ways to set up the Racial Justice Institute and spread it over the law center, medical center, and main campus.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • The 51-year-old woman died two weeks later on Friday, Jan. 31, in a medical center in Traverse City.
    Sam Gillette, People.com, 29 May 2025

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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