resorting

Example Sentences

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Customer-service operations still rely heavily on underpaid and poorly trained humans, leading to general dissatisfaction across all service metrics, including wait times and repeat calls, with consumers increasingly resorting to equally unsatisfactory self-service alternatives.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

“But they have to be real. I think resorting to these one-time solutions has really exacerbated the problem.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

She said it shows "how deeply unpopular they are with their own population that it is struggling to recruit adults to staff security checkpoints and is resorting to using children in support roles during wartime".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Pirro said her office had sought meetings with the Fed repeatedly before resorting to subpoenas and was ignored each time.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

“So now we’re resorting to fortune cookie wisdom? Like that’s going to help put food in our kids’ mouths?”

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate