diff --git a/dotnet/Directory.Packages.props b/dotnet/Directory.Packages.props
index a95145ec25e4..144ad48e347a 100644
--- a/dotnet/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/dotnet/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" Version="2.5.6" />
     <PackageVersion Include="xretry" Version="1.9.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="coverlet.collector" Version="6.0.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Polly" Version="8.2.0" />
     <!-- Plugins -->
     <PackageVersion Include="DocumentFormat.OpenXml" Version="3.0.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Data.Sqlite" Version="8.0.0" />
diff --git a/dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example08_RetryHandler.cs b/dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example08_RetryHandler.cs
index 7795187704c6..df66d963fa15 100644
--- a/dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example08_RetryHandler.cs
+++ b/dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example08_RetryHandler.cs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public async Task RunAsync()
 
         var logger = kernel.LoggerFactory.CreateLogger(typeof(Example08_RetryHandler));
 
-        const string Question = "How popular is the Polly library?";
+        const string Question = "How do I add a standard resilience handler in IHttpClientBuilder??";
         logger.LogInformation("Question: {Question}", Question);
 
         // The call to OpenAI will fail and be retried a few times before eventually failing.
diff --git a/dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/KernelSyntaxExamples.csproj b/dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/KernelSyntaxExamples.csproj
index 9205e18811af..fc942262fe1a 100644
--- a/dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/KernelSyntaxExamples.csproj
+++ b/dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/KernelSyntaxExamples.csproj
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Polly" />
     <PackageReference Include="SharpToken" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.DeepDev.TokenizerLib" />