vestige
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She believes the city system of five board members serving as a collective general manager is a vestige of another era that never would be created today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Now, nearly two years after the most recent discharge was announced, borrowers say they can’t escape the last vestige of this debt: It still appears on their credit reports.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
When I arrived in the parking lot on an August Saturday afternoon, I immediately saw a pink Cadillac, a vestige of the Cupid’s Outlet.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The company’s New Jersey connection is a vestige of its past, when Exxon was part of the conglomerate Standard Oil back in the 19th century.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
They were sitting at either end of the couch looking at each other as if some question had been asked or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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So these are not just sort of weird random afterthoughts or vestiges.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
They were among the last vestiges of foreign investment in an economy dominated by the communist state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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
Grace, tame as well, though with sneaky vestiges of wild.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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