remainder
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At this point, I expect I will be renting for the remainder of my life.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
It added that when a family has difficulty paying the remainder, the school can draw on a social fund financed by the education ministry.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The remainder of its guidance was kept unchanged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The park, near Doncaster, will remain closed for the remainder of the weekend, it added.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
In the clearing the bodies of King Morgant and Ellidyr lay side by side, and the remainder of King Smoit’s horsemen rode in a slow, mournful circle around them.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
On the other are the remainders – the gamers, the “Real World” guy and that “Bachelor,” who devised a strategy that led to them rooting out two Traitors.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
Now, as they slurp the remainders of their lunch, she cautiously allows the words to escape.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
Other remainders include the use of much recorded music, leaving the terrific musicians on hand, like Jiménez and the pianist Anibal César Cruz, underused.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
Marcos Jr. has not explained how he will deal with such remainders of the past.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2022
For supper we ate the remainders from the plates of Inkstained and Goldbuttons—cold tongue and brown bread.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
He recently bought a 44,000-pound load of about 38,000 remaindered books.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
After her sterling Pacific service she was then remaindered and renamed the Lord Sandwich, and ended up carrying Hessian troops to New York in a vain attempt to counter the American Revolution.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2019
I take out the unopened player, a fossil preserved in molded plastic, remaindered from an old RadioShack somewhere.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2018
The shop officially opened on Wednesday, and is a light-filled temple of modernity: white walls, concrete floors, the bow truss ceiling remaindered from the original structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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