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resort

[ri-zawrt] / rɪˈzɔrt /




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Adoption should be pursued as a last resort, the government and adoption organisations have told us, because, while it offers stability, it also severs the legal relationship between the child and its birth family forever.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

As in other resort towns, hotels and ski mountains were charging dizzying rates to keep up with operational costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Like many on Martha’s Vineyard, a resort island off Cape Cod that’s teeming with ticks this year, I bid a sad farewell to hamburgers, bacon and lamb chops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Newton met Martinson through their work at a "global company" and they both lived in the luxury resort of Ras Al Khaimah, to the north-east of Dubai.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

But police involvement was more of a last resort.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

He resorts to black magic to bring Brunhilda out of her grave, as beautiful as ever yet strangely distant and cold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

"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 BBC Sport NI's Stephen Watson.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"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

Whenever I met my classmates they would tell me about the jobs they had found, how some of them had left town to work in summer resorts in the North.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

Those who have stayed inside Ukraine have resorted to workarounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

The doctors resorted to giving him nourishment with enemas several times a day.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

“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

Also, there are plenty of other cheap forwards to choose from before resorting to Isidor.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

In practice it means that teachers focus on emotional regulation and understanding what a child needs rather than resorting to immediate discipline.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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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