resort
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Nine people were killed Sunday when the Learjet they were traveling in plummeted into a neighborhood in southern Florida, just miles from US President Donald Trump's resort home of Mar-a-Lago, officials said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Moreover, the Qatar golf resort deal is not the only one of its kind.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Canyon Ranch Austin resort is set on 600 acres in the small unincorporated community of Spicewood, about an hour from Austin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The layoffs are limited to the experiences division, which includes Disney’s theme parks, cruise line and Aulani resort and spa in Hawaii.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
“You don’t like him because he’s a better person than you are. He doesn’t resort to stealing and sabotage just to get other people to listen to him.”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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Clay Rikard, senior vice president of system planning at Southern, said the company has a more than 99% voluntary-agreement rate with landowners and rarely resorts to condemnation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Nearly 80% of all-inclusive resorts have become ‘luxury or upper upscale,’ Bernstein analysts say, as the industry seeks higher-income travelers able to weather inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
But all-inclusive resorts have quietly transformed into luxury destinations, according to the note, with Michelin-starred chefs and yoga and wellness retreats, as the travel industry increasingly chases wealthier consumers to offset potentially shrinking profits.
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
Then he resorts to taking long walks, through fields and woods and cemeteries.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Those who were too afraid to go out in the city had resorted to cooking garden weeds to survive.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Locals trapped there have resorted to hunting and eating pigeons in recent months, former residents in touch with those in the city told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 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
George, Florah and I resorted to eating our own mucus.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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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
He describes the current situation as an "AI war", with candidates "resorting to AI to bolster their applications" while "employers are dealing with huge amounts of applications".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 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
However, Conmebol did "express its concern about the repeated unilateral actions taken without resorting to dialogue or the institutional mechanisms provided for dealing with this type of situation".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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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