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
For now, Lee has paused the state's executions for the remainder of the year.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The park, near Doncaster, will remain closed for the remainder of the weekend, it added.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Hurley also kept a Kodak pocket camera and three rolls of film, with which he documented the remainder of the crew’s odyssey.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
Not only have they lost newspapers, the remainders are mostly owned by parsimonious national chains.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 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
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
He recently bought a 44,000-pound load of about 38,000 remaindered books.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
I take out the unopened player, a fossil preserved in molded plastic, remaindered from an old RadioShack somewhere.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2018
Clive James captured the feeling in a poem that takes its title from its first line: “The book of my enemy has been remaindered/ And I am pleased.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2013
He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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