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  • his only recourse was the police
  • He had recourse to his pipe that evening to help him study it out, much to Marilla's disgust.  (source)
    recourse = a different way to accomplish something when the preferred way doesn't work
  • But the rest of it was true enough: I was transfixed, I could not move, I had no recourse.†  (source)
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  • If this launch fails, is there any recourse for Watney?†  (source)
  • Only, since of course I couldn't go back outside"not if I didn't want Teen People to get a nice close-up of me crying"my only recourse was to walk out into the girls' room.†  (source)
  • "Now, my dears," the words continued, "I shall of course have no need of recourse to violence, but I thought perhaps it would save you pain if I showed you at once that it would do you no good to try to oppose me.†  (source)
  • Individuals could thus also ask philosophical questions without recourse to ancient myths.†  (source)
  • If they wouldn't listen when you used your very loudest voice, a scream became your only recourse.†  (source)
  • She asked about whether the strikers had any legal recourse if the company violated the terms of the strike agreement.†  (source)
  • Now if you're a modernist poet and therefore given to irony (notice that I've not yet alluded to modernism without having recourse to irony?)†  (source)
  • I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.†  (source)
  • My only recourse, I decided, was to act bored, as though the company of no one but Nobu could possibly interest me.†  (source)
  • "Before free agency, they just paid you whatever they felt like paying you, and your only recourse was to withhold services," said Tom Condon, an offensive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1980s who went on to become a leading players' agent.†  (source)
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