resort
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The famed resort town was hit by Hurricane Polo in late September and again by Hurricane Simon days later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
The plan was to get a little juice and then charge overnight at the oceanfront resort 16 miles away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Moldovan tourist Raisa Neagu spent hours on Wednesday waiting to fuel up her scooter, one of many people snared in a petrol shortage on resort island Bali that authorities blamed on supply disruptions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Monthly payments go toward seven nights of resort lodging.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
That way, the other saboteurs had one more way to contact one another, as a last resort.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Six Flags operates 20 amusement parks, 14 water parks and nine resorts across Canada, the US and Mexico.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Six Flags is the largest amusement park operator in North America, with 20 amusement parks, 14 water parks and nine resorts across Canada, the US and Mexico.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The company’s sprawling interests include resorts in Las Vegas and around the world, table game revenue and online betting operations including BetMGM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Adding land-based resorts to the mix would give Royal Caribbean something else to sell to its roughly 9 million customers, they said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Majestic mountains loom to the north, but they are a tease; the Idaho of snowy peaks and ski resorts, plus a handful of militias and survivalists, is a long way off.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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The filmmakers followed the heated battles as people in the divided community resorted to screaming and name-calling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
States have resorted to Rube Goldberg-like schemes to obtain drugs from abroad, sometimes under false pretenses, or have used drugs that are expired or improperly stored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
As with his mother, who wrote tall tales during his Northern Irish youth, Cohn resorted to literary imagination and exaggeration to bring the story to life.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Todd Luong has resorted to paying his real-estate agents to hold open houses, because no one wants to staff one.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Whatever the problem, it forced Holly to adopt a strategy she would rather not have resorted to.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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Fast-food chains have been battling for consumers and often resorting to discounts to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Paramount’s high-profile lobbying campaign reached a crescendo in late August after Paramount called out activist-actor Mark Ruffalo, accusing him of resorting to “antisemitic tropes” to argue against the merger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told AFP in an exclusive interview he wants to reach a security agreement with Israel once it withdraws from the south, and is determined to disarm Hezbollah without resorting to confrontation.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
In mitigation, Elliott Stern told the court his client had tried to deal with the dispute without resorting to killing the fish.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
However, Archimedes figured out a way to measure the parabola’s area by resorting to the infinite.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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