resort
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They rented a vehicle, hiked the scenic Cabot Trail and stayed at a resort on the Atlantic Ocean run entirely by women.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The resort canceled his stay, leading to a viral feud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The minister has previously said there was no reasonable alternative to the cattle being euthanised on site and has insisted it was a last resort as officials had to act on a court order.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The road was originally built in the ’30s to accommodate traffic heading to the ski resort, which closed in the ’70s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
They passed through the ruins of a resort town and took the road south.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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A fleet of small boats evacuated about 500 tourists from beaches in northern Greece as a forest fire threatened two popular resorts on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Greece's civil protection agency sent evacuation warnings by phone to people in the two resorts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Most notable among the new and renovated Guerneville resorts: Dawn Ranch and the River Electric, both with a glamping focus, both with docks on the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Seaside traders believe people are spending fewer evenings and less cash in one of the biggest resorts on England's east coast.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
‘Form’ is for him of no use whatever - or rather, the form he resorts to is ever-changing to the point of being quite unlike any of the established, so to speak administrative, forms.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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To tackle the severe droughts and water shortages that plague the country, Kazakhstan has resorted to cloud seeding, a weather modification method previously unseen in Central Asia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Several people, including former rebel fighter Motaz al-Zaydi, told us they had resorted to eating rats.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The hospital has also doubled up many of its single-occupancy hospital rooms, converted its gift shop to a procedure room and resorted to treating patients in what were once meditation and waiting rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Others have resorted to Icelandic Provisions Cold Brew Coffee Extra Creamy Skyr or a coffee yogurt made by Mehadrin, a kosher brand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
When after a moment it had not moved, I resorted to the car horn, but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The defense memo described Zambada as a patriarch — the father of 16 children from multiple women — and a peacemaker who “was known to first seek out other solutions” before resorting to violence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
In France the government has pestered the public to wet their skin, drink cold soup and block windows with cardboard to beat the heat—anything to avoid resorting to AC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
France's education minister, Edouard Geffray, announcing the measures, also said that some schools were resorting to municipal halls, libraries or other air-conditioned premises so that teaching could go on "in more suitable conditions".
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“I chat with people,” Blankfein said of his method of gaining information for making decisions on possible trades, outlining that he will text someone back and forth before resorting to calling them.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
I won the first one, and Sonny won the second, hence why Malik’s salty butt is resorting to dirty tactics.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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