vestige
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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
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
But the opportunity to be in that orbit of this last vestige of American live television that still exists with its impracticalities … there’s no replicating it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Soccer team rosters, citations at the end of journals, introductions at faculty meetings—always they seem to her some vestige of the prison lists that never contained her father’s name.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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So these are not just sort of weird random afterthoughts or vestiges.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 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
It is also unclear what Netflix would want with Warner’s shrinking cable TV channels and other vestiges of legacy media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Mercifully, some vestiges of Mike’s chivalry still survived; he came to stand beside me.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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