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
  • The Palm Beach County part of the district, which is home to three in 10 of the district’s voters, is more Republican.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The reservation is also home to Foxwoods Resorts Casino.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Voletta died of natural causes in hospice care at her home in Stroudsburg, PA, on February 21, a coroner for Monroe County confirmed to Rolling Stone.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
  • John Drew was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in his later years and was supported by Drew, who paid for his hospice care.
    Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 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
  • Medical researchers are beginning to explore the potential cognitive benefits: an ongoing study at Vanderbilt’s medical center investigates whether nicotine patches could alleviate memory loss in people with mild cognitive impairment.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In fact, in 2014 the Cleveland Clinic opened the first functional medicine practice at any US academic medical center, the Center for Functional Medicine, where Dr. Carter is the medical director.
    Sarah Klein, SELF, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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