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recourse

[ree-kawrs, -kohrs, ri-kawrs, -kohrs] / ˈri kɔrs, -koʊrs, rɪˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs /


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Helicopter pilots are trained to stay away from those conditions, Cress said, because the lack of altitude and forward momentum give them little recourse if there is engine trouble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Foreign journalists applying for visa extensions would also have "no recourse and no appeal" in the event they are turned down, Saylor said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Do you know of, or can you suggest, what recourse I have to recover these funds?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

This year the last thin layer of recourse peeled off.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Madison’s more judicious arguments, published as the Virginia Resolutions, were circulating in the national press and achieving the same goal—condemning the Sedition Act but without recourse to nullification.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

"There is no doubt whatsoever that the bank will fight this case and use all recourses available to it," it said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

“If they over-excavated, and if they’re not going to do anything about it, what are my recourses? I don’t know.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

Ms. Rozin warned that the district “will diligently pursue with equal vigor all legal recourses against frivolous litigation.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

You don’t say more about how specifically the money was raised or how you found out it’s gone, so it’s hard to say what recourses you might have.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2021

Press maintains all copy- rights to "Terminal Compromise" and does not, either intentionally or otherwise, explicitly or implicitly, waive any rights to this piece of work or recourses deemed appropriate.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau




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