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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a resort to" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a course of action taken in response to a situation, often when other options have been exhausted.
Example: "In times of crisis, a resort to drastic measures may be necessary to ensure safety."
Alternatives: "a reliance on" or "an appeal to".
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A resort to our bookshelves turned up more data.
The answer to inadequate treatment is better treatment, not a resort to the criminal justice system.
Their only strategy against the innercity Greens has been a resort to ugly personality politics.
"Will the United States resolve its debt problems without a resort to inflation?
It was a resort to the classic diversionary expedient, a flashy foreign adventure, of the dictator in trouble at home.
A resort to military force must be a last resort - and under the auspices of the UN.
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Thus it has a stabilisation fund ready as a last resort to support a plummeting stockmarket.
He took them to the Penn State campus, to a golf resort, to a bowl game.
Mr. Turan insists that layoffs are a last resort to close a $28 million budget gap.
Would Barbie be "diversifying" if it weren't a last resort to save a dying brand?
"She would only do this as a last resort to ensure that there was a government".
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