Thesaurus results for HALFWAY HOUSE

halfway house

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as in home

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Recent Examples of halfway house Theranos turned out to be a fraud, will be moved from her current minimum-security prison to a halfway house next year to finish out her prison term, officials said. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been approved to move to a halfway house next year, ABC News reported, years after her stunning downfall that culminated in a conviction for defrauding investors while running her failed blood testing startup. — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026 He’s currently assigned to a Chicago-area halfway house, records show. — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 Located in Rimini, San Patrignano is the largest halfway house in Europe and has been offering people with drug addictions the tools to build a new life since 1978. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for halfway house

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Noun

Mubarak Bekheit, an aid worker in Darfur, told the AP by phone on Wednesday that many people remained missing and some bodies had yet to be recovered from homes in the area after the strike hit a civilian neighborhood.

— YASSIR ABDALLA, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
Bickelhaupt escaped the home and called a ride-sharing service to the airport, intending to travel back to Denver, Colorado, where she was born.

— Zoey Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

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The former sanatorium offers a superlative spa experience with 16 different bathing experiences, including saunas, steam rooms and access to a private swimming jetty on the beach.

— Laura Hall, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
The daughter, incidentally, is a tuberculosis patient in a Swiss sanatorium (shades of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, which had appeared to great acclaim only five years earlier).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of sanatorium

Noun

That quickly comes in handy when Clancy, a sadistic guard, tells the inmates they’re being shipped to the infamous sanitarium Saint Mabyn’s.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
The estate later transitioned into a sanitarium that hosted the likes of Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026

Definition of sanitarium

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Health insurance costs are part of the reason why physicians at UC’s medical centers are collecting cards to unionize, according to Perez.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Three men were dropped off outside the Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw medical center on Monday night.

— Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of medical center

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