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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

The middle layers of management—so central to today’s corporate structure—could be a vestige of the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

To frighten her, I smashed a porcelain jar that, I believe, was the last vestige of the splendid days of my great-grandfather, but she was unmoved.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Around the office were vestiges of times gone by.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

They were among the last vestiges of foreign investment in an economy dominated by the communist state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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

Gassendi saw no need to make an explicit distinction between the evidence of vestiges and the evidence of witnesses, but he certainly did not think that the scar ‘testifies’ to the wound.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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