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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of resort.

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Examples

  • Palin resorted to Jingoisim (if you dont know what that means look it up, sorry for the Elitist terms), Racisim, Nationalisim etc.

    A Shaved Butt for Obama? Dave Hurteau 2008

  • Here was a smart, crackling drama that started out brilliantly, then as it moved along the cracks started to show (painfully unfunny show-within-a-show skits) until Aaron Sorkin resorted to putting his characters in awful, stock situations (Danny and Jordan stuck on the studio rooftop!).

    2007 May : Scrubbles.net 2007

  • Here was a smart, crackling drama that started out brilliantly, then as it moved along the cracks started to show (painfully unfunny show-within-a-show skits) until Aaron Sorkin resorted to putting his characters in awful, stock situations (Danny and Jordan stuck on the studio rooftop!).

    Boob Tubing : Scrubbles.net 2007

  • Ken Mehlman, the head of the Republican National Committee, again resorted yesterday to gay-baiting Democrats for political gain.

    02/08/2005 2005

  • Dan reports below that Justice Kennedy once again resorted to foreign law to support the Court’s diktat that the Eighth Amendment now purportedly forbids life sentences for those 16 and younger who commit non-homicide felonies.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Life-Without-Parole Sentence for Under-18 Offender Unconstitutional, When the Crime Is Not Homicide 2010

  • Those practices, in turn, to use the obscure word resorted to by the Administration, somehow "migrated" to U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as if no human hand had been involved in the dissemination.

    Kennedy's right: No on Gonzales... Mumon 2005

  • Hair rising accounts of bright ideas of turning the Rock Citadel into a Disney style theme park have thankfully been quashed, (for now anyway) and citizens mercifully have had to stop writing on the mirror wall, an old form of self expression resorted to in a time before internet blogging … so the Rock Citadel will have more time.

    Kottu 2008

  • Hair rising accounts of bright ideas of turning the Rock Citadel into a Disney style theme park have thankfully been quashed, (for now anyway) and citizens mercifully have had to stop writing on the mirror wall, an old form of self expression resorted to in a time before internet blogging … so the Rock Citadel will have more time.

    Kottu 2008

  • Hair rising accounts of bright ideas of turning the Rock Citadel into a Disney style theme park have thankfully been quashed, (for now anyway) and citizens mercifully have had to stop writing on the mirror wall, an old form of self expression resorted to in a time before internet blogging … so the Rock Citadel will have more time.

    Kottu 2008

  • Hair rising accounts of bright ideas of turning the Rock Citadel into a Disney style theme park have thankfully been quashed, (for now anyway) and citizens mercifully have had to stop writing on the mirror wall, an old form of self expression resorted to in a time before internet blogging … so the Rock Citadel will have more time.

    Kottu 2008

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