remainder
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Some dealers say they’ll pay the remainder, but they sometimes pass this cost on to the consumer.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
A Bank of America survey indicates that investors expect about $100 billion in additional bond volume from big tech companies in the remainder of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Michael Monahan will substitute for Beard for the remainder of the Big One, which will conclude its U.S. run on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
If their work is purchased, the artist receives half of the profits with the remainder used to fund the purchase of materials for others on the scheme.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Nevertheless, before morning the remainder of the bread on the floor has been carried off.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
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
If necessary, he could then test the remainders of each of the fifty samples individually.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
The shop officially opened on Wednesday, and is a light-filled temple of modernity: white walls, concrete floors, the bow truss ceiling remaindered from the original structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
All the major labels released adventurous recordings of new music; when these LPs stopped selling, they would get remaindered.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2015
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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