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resort

[ri-zawrt] / rɪˈzɔrt /




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Rose ski resort, with the area’s highest base elevation at 8,260 feet, plans to open early, according to SFGate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Unlike hotels in cities, resort properties are also bigger — with sometimes thousands of rooms — allowing them to spread the cost of doing business across more customers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The 66-year-old had twice failed to get himself arrested so he could spend the night in jail before finally succeeding by sounding off about Erdogan in a park in the Mediterranean resort of Alanya.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Freeride World Tour—an international ski and snowboard competition—has held multiple qualifier events at the region’s Jikepulin resort, known for its powder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Between 1980 and 2000, the county's population doubled in size as the coastal areas attracted beach homes and resort properties.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

“Larger resorts create efficiencies that are difficult for smaller hotels to replicate.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Even with her fraud thoroughly exposed, even in a documentary where she repeatedly resorts to the obvious trick of focusing on semantics, we remain fascinated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

On the north side of the peninsula, Paradise Bay is home to a cluster of high-end resorts that can be reached by sleek, private water taxis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Then he resorts to taking long walks, through fields and woods and cemeteries.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Where Waititi once brought an authentic ache to his bittersweet sagas of wayward souls, he’s resorted to sledgehammer mawkishness that’s meant to be offset by his droll humor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

He hands out burritos to the homeless and has resorted to bargaining directly with neighborhood loiterers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

Since the banning of books, people had resorted to illegally trading them on the black market.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s government is looking for ways to negotiate the release of the captured men before resorting to a harsher military response, said one person involved in the rescue efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

With frequent power cuts transforming Havana into a ghost town, young Cubans are struggling to get their kicks, many resorting to games of dominoes with strangers to pass the time.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 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

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

For some reason resorting to uncharacteristic, bookish language.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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