- present participle of resort.
resorting
Example Sentences
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France's education minister, Edouard Geffray, announcing the measures, also said that some schools were resorting to municipal halls, libraries or other air-conditioned premises so that teaching could go on "in more suitable conditions".
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“The tools that people are using to present themselves in the best light possible are the same reason that companies are resorting to these backdoor references.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
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
For some reason resorting to uncharacteristic, bookish language.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
