halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house Challenges remain, including a lack of halfway house space and administrative hurdles within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025 Staff at the halfway house scheduled an emergency mental health evaluation for Caudill. Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2025 However, for those with longer sentences, over 4 years, the FSA allows prisoners to continue to earn credits toward prerelease custody (halfway house and home confinement). Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024 The pair, who previously met at a halfway house, doused the family's home with gasoline and set it ablaze. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for halfway house
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Noun
  • While his music has often straddled the line between pop and jazz, these days, he’s found a home primarily on the latter’s charts, and especially on those focused on the more traditional end of the spectrum.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • But now, Comer, 55, is receiving hospice care at home.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • John Lawlor, who played Headmaster Steven Bradley in the first season of sitcom The Facts of Life, died February 13 at a veteran’s hospice facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In a picturesque river valley outside the northern city of Chuncheon, an old elementary school has been converted into a café and resort that resembles a high-end sanatorium, with blond wood and poured concrete.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The serene 13,000-square-foot property was commissioned in 1912 by the Austrian monarchy and was originally intended to be a tuberculosis sanatorium.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 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
  • Not long after, an ambulance from the Hartbeespoort Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) met them and took the boy to a nearby medical center.
    Stacy Lambe, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Authorities later stated that officials had determined multiple calls were made Feb. 12 from Betsy to a medical center.
    Janelle Ash, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2025

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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