vestige

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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

Everywhere Jay and his entourage go, a piece of cheesecake follows, the last, haunting vestige of a star’s rider that should’ve been updated long ago.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2025

Discovery is burdened with billions in debt, a vestige of Discovery’s takeover of WarnerMedia from AT&T three years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025

In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

These are vestiges: the banker’s table, or the pig’s trotter, or the criminal’s finger leave a vestige, a track or a trace.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton