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Recent Examples of halfway house
At the time, Wallace was seeking treatment at a halfway house in Memphis, Tenn., authorities said.
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Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Now automated, the lighthouse doubles as a halfway house and holiday accommodation for the course, its beam still sweeping the sea though guided by automation rather than keepers.
—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Mother and daughter reunited in 1998, when Kenishea Frierson was 14 and her mom had just gotten out of a post-prison halfway house.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The tabard was a sort of halfway house.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2025
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Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Now automated, the lighthouse doubles as a halfway house and holiday accommodation for the course, its beam still sweeping the sea though guided by automation rather than keepers.
—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Mother and daughter reunited in 1998, when Kenishea Frierson was 14 and her mom had just gotten out of a post-prison halfway house.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The tabard was a sort of halfway house.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
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What those 15,000 or so fair-weather fans missed was the Broncos (4-2, 2-0) asserting themselves in the fourth quarter to pull away for a 41-25 Mountain West win over the Lobos (3-3, 0-2), who for much of the night were like a gnat the home team couldn’t swat away.—
Jim Keyser,
Idaho Statesman,
12 Oct. 2025
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Update your emergency kit and be sure to include enough food and water to last for 3 days for each person in your home.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Oct. 2025
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The teams also visit people in hospitals, in hospice, with special needs or developmental challenges and those dealing with disasters.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Oct. 2025
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This version, however, focuses on his friendship with 12-year-old Georg, who discovers and secretly raises the puppy in a mountain hospice, leading to adventures in the Swiss alps.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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The thriller — more horrific than straight-up scary — is worth checking out, if only for the late Brittany Murphy's nervy turn as a razor-wielding woman confined to a sanatorium.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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Now, the sanatorium hosts public and private tours and paranormal investigations for those interested in exploring the building.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
8 Aug. 2025
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An upright piano, several music stands, and a Gretsch drum set were globbed together in a tiny, all-white room that could pass for a sanitarium.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks?—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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The trial, led by the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Davis will look at hundreds of thousands of mammograms at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's medical school, as well as academic medical centers in four other states.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Innovation is in our DNA, embedded in our strategic goals, and integrated across all our hospital departments and medical centers.—
Christophe Mouton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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