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resort

[ri-zawrt] / rɪˈzɔrt /




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Another AFP reporter saw people receiving temperature checks at a Lagos-area beach resort.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

Happy to report the included perks, like free breakfast, $100 resort credit and a room upgrade, came through.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

There’s no way Mom would settle for a roadside motel or three-star resort.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Meanwhile, the increase in Google searches for all-inclusive resorts has significantly outpaced the rise in searches for hotels and cruises, particularly this year, they noted.

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

But then I dive deeper and realize that many of the tiny islands only have resorts.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

Now, Swift, despite her strong songwriting skills, has resorted to some pretty rote wordplay in recent years.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

For a decade, Mr. Daniels kept tuition in check, promoted free speech and intellectual diversity, and opened the campus to in-person teaching when many other schools resorted to pandemic lockdowns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

It also resorted to covert action when it thought this was justified—and during the Cold War, justification was easy to find.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Fast-food chains have been battling for consumers and often resorting to discounts to do so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

These are growth options for PLS without resorting to M&A in markets underpinned by strong underlying long-term demand, such as electric vehicles and battery storage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

For some reason resorting to uncharacteristic, bookish language.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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