halfway house

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Recent Examples of halfway house According to court records, Mason went to her usual polling place on Nov. 8, 2016, after having been released from federal prison a year earlier and from a halfway house in August. Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Mar. 2024 The halfway house is part of the Re-Entry Assisted Community Housing, or REACH, program that is designed to help former prisoners. Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2024 This August, he was released to a halfway house near Los Angeles. Miles Cohen, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024 But the Swiss decision sends the signal to European citizens that there is an alternative after all, some halfway house between total integration and total separation, and that the balance must be decided through public debate. Lukas Kaelin, Foreign Affairs, 26 Mar. 2014 See all Example Sentences for halfway house 
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Noun
  • The Associated Press confirmed on Wednesday that the Instagram handle belongs to Markle, and ABC News reported that the video was filmed by Prince Harry on a public beach near their home in Montecito, Calif., where the couple has lived since leaving royal life.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Her mother, a day laborer who had to leave school at age 10 to work, cleaned houses under the demeaning conditions of the Jim Crow era: Butler sometimes accompanied her mom on the job, where they were required to enter homes through back doors.
    Stephen Kearse, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Why do some people live longer with hospice care? Living longer after stopping cancer treatments and switching to hospice care may seem counterintuitive, experts note.
    Dr. Lindsey Ulin, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The Democratic politician, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his dedication to humanitarian efforts and human rights after his presidency, had been receiving hospice care at his home for over a year prior to his death.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • One person described in the report, Sonny McDonald, was incarcerated at a tuberculosis sanatorium as a child.
    BySadia Rafiquddin, science.org, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The older novel follows a young man’s lengthy stay at Davos, a Swiss sanatorium.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 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
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  • Service was restored to 16 hospitals, including medical center and municipal hospital of San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital, Luma Puerto Rico posted on X. Which regions in Puerto Rico are most affected?
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The medical center of the VA in Tulsa, Okla., was renamed after the late Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024

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“Halfway house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway%20house. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.

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