recourse
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But if they do gain access to your biometric data, by hacking a site where it’s stored, for example, you have no recourse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Many of the people who contacted the BBC also said they felt they had no recourse to justice for side effects they say they weren't properly warned about.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
The PPC has initiated arbitration proceedings, and in a statement Thursday, CK Hutchison warned that handing control the ports to Maersk "will cause damages... and will result in recourse against APMT."
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
Is there any recourse against someone taking such actions unilaterally without discussing them with anyone else?
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
‘The treatment of natural things differs greatly from that of other sciences...In the explanation of natural causes, we must necessarily have recourse to a different kind of principle, called “hypothesis” or “supposition”.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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