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 park, near Doncaster, will remain closed for the remainder of the weekend, it added.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
After the death of Lindsey Graham on July 11, Gov. Henry McMaster chose the late senator’s sister, Darline, to serve out the remainder of her brother’s term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
He held up the remainder of the book in front of him.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
One way to count them is to partition them into a finite number of baskets, based on the remainders one gets when dividing a prime by another prime, denoted byp.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 15, 2022
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
For supper we ate the remainders from the plates of Inkstained and Goldbuttons—cold tongue and brown bread.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Yes, off-brands and remaindered products made up the bulk of offerings, but treasures awaited for those who regularly came.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
Could the front office trade possibly 17 draft picks and some remaindered No. 10 jerseys to move up for Sam Darnold, and then fly to a Caribbean island to celebrate?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2017
Didn’t I just buy that, remaindered, for 25 cents?
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2015
Then he pointed to Michael Holroyd’s Bernard Shaw: first volume bestseller; second volume very successful; third volume poor sales; fourth volume remaindered almost the moment it appeared.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2015
He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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