resort
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Trump spent Sunday at his Doonbeg golf resort, which is hosting the Irish Open, before his scheduled return to Washington.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
However, the Springboks' brute strength in the close quarters meant they could collect points without needing to resort to such high-risk passages of play.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Trump bought the struggling resort in 2014 for a reported 15 million euros.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The railroads advertised the L.A. climate as a last resort for the world’s sickly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
She didn’t often resort to such a typical island expression.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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"It's going to be different, but the one thing I'd say is his golf resorts have hosted PGA Tour events, European Tour events, LIV events," McIlroy told the BBC.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
If you have an extra day or two, there are plenty of nearby lakes, small towns and resorts worth exploring.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
As we drove down to Orikum, a beach town south of Vlore, Aulon spoke at length about the other times they’ve been promised benefits from luxury tourist resorts that never materialized.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
The white sand beaches, turquoise waters and secluded luxury resorts of this South Asian archipelago attract millions of tourists each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
After that, the big ones started to fall: large-scale resorts, fly-in luxury cottages, and wilderness getaways for stressed businessmen and their foreign investors.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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As 1931 dragged on and they remained imprisoned without trial, the couple resorted to a hunger strike in protest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
With the island's aging electricity infrastructure heavily reliant on fuel imports, hospitals have resorted to using emergency generators.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
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
Desperate, the jockey resorted to an old bush-league tactic.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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“Basically, no film studio wants to give her the budget to turn her books into a movie with real actors, so she’s resorting to AI studios,” wrote one person on Reddit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
"The whole ship was a sweat box," he said, with some passengers in cabins that had no windows resorting to sleeping on the ship's roof.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Some automakers are resorting to shipping vehicles inside containers, while BYD has launched its own fleet of eight car carriers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
This would give people a means of expressing their frustration without resorting to violence.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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