vestiges

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Broken computer monitors in bombed-out offices, scattered fake police uniforms and phoney hundred-dollar bills: these were the vestiges of a frantic escape of suspected cyberscammers fleeing a resort on the Cambodia-Thailand border.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

“It effectively killed the last vestiges of ’80s glam rock, all that hair, metal and theatrics,” says Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Particularly as this dramatic move, removing the remaining vestiges of his royal life, comes with an assertion of his innocence and that he continued to "vigorously deny the accusations against me".

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

Yet Lorde views it as her duty as a performer to “bring all these parts of myself forward,” she says — even the songs that seem now like vestiges of a different life.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025

Mercifully, some vestiges of Mike’s chivalry still survived; he came to stand beside me.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer