last resort
Example Sentences
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The insurer of last resort, operated and backed by the state’s licensed home insurers, has seen its rolls skyrocket as member insurers have dropped policyholders in wildfire-prone neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times
Price increases are a last resort, he said.
“I will use AI sometimes, but it’s a last resort for me,” said Leo Gurney, a 19-year-old college student in London.
But I don’t want her to think she’s a last resort.
From Literature
The patrolmen are equipped with rifles and handguns, to be used as a last resort against angry polar bears and musk ox.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
