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vestige

[ves-tij] / ˈvɛs tɪdʒ /


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Now, nearly two years after the most recent discharge was announced, borrowers say they can’t escape the last vestige of this debt: It still appears on their credit reports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

When I arrived in the parking lot on an August Saturday afternoon, I immediately saw a pink Cadillac, a vestige of the Cupid’s Outlet.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Hainu, a vestige of the Japanese colonial era, shares some similarities with the centuries-old matriarchal tradition of haenyeo free-diving in South Korea, although Taiwan's sea women do not go underwater.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Reason magazine calls it the “lost remnants of a pre-vibe-shift culture, the last vestige of a fully woke world.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

As she came walking in, looking very tired but as composed as ever, she observed that every vestige of the unfortunate fete had disappeared, except a suspicious pucker about the corners of Jo’s mouth.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

So these are not just sort of weird random afterthoughts or vestiges.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

There were sharp changes in economic and social life in the decades after Constantine III. Manufacturing industries collapsed and the last vestiges of urban life vanished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

But most critically, venture capital has eaten away at the remaining vestiges of old-school journalism.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

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

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer




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