resort
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A blaze near Plomari, the old ouzo town on the island’s south coast, was eating coastal homes while roughly 100 firefighters fought it, and a seaside resort emptied into the dark.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
BBC Verify has looked at the reasons why ministers feel the need to resort to these measures.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
A tiler in civilian life, he has spent days rushing water and carrying hoses behind the firefighters beating back the blazes near his home in the beach resort of Lanton in southwest France.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Companies usually only resort to putting an employee on a PIP if they’re close to being fired and the company needs to create a paper trail documenting poor performance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
That way, the other saboteurs had one more way to contact one another, as a last resort.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Disney Chief Executive Josh D’Amaro, who previously ran the company’s parks and resorts operations, has given priority to creating new experiences and significantly increasing its number of cruise ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
People can protect themselves while away by following good food and water hygiene measures, including drinking bottled water and eating thoroughly cooked food, even when staying in high-end all-inclusive resorts.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
In France, industry experts say they have seen growing popularity of mountain resorts during the summer.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Wildfires across southwestern Europe are forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from tourist resorts and other areas near population centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She resorts to craven, apologetic giggling, which annoys them further, and me also.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Residents have resorted to using orange cones to stop Waymos from driving through alleyways or onto the lots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
For days before his PortaSplit arrived, he had resorted to squirting water on his face to keep cool at home.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Unable to find buyers for their properties, some sellers have resorted to multiple price cuts in order to get an offer.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
As Titan, Mr. Robinson often resorted to shouting; mezzo Zoie Reams was persuasive as Persephone’s sister Zipporah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Blanca made her all sorts of soothing teas and warm baths, and Esteban resorted to the old box of homeopathic pills to calm her down, but her nightmares continued.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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
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
Let’s be clear: Private planes do pay fees at airports without resorting to use of ADS-B.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Customer-service operations still rely heavily on underpaid and poorly trained humans, leading to general dissatisfaction across all service metrics, including wait times and repeat calls, with consumers increasingly resorting to equally unsatisfactory self-service alternatives.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
The Aborigines modified and managed the surrounding landscape in ways that increased its production of edible plants and animals, without resorting to cultivation.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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