vestige

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 tough sanctions, removing any vestige of royal status.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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

The company’s prebankruptcy $16.1-billion debt load was a vestige of its 2008 private equity leveraged buyout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

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

There were sharp changes in economic and social life in the decades after Constantine III. Manufacturing industries collapsed and the last vestiges of urban life vanished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

In northeastern Annaba -- formerly the ancient Roman city of Hippo -- Leo will visit vestiges of the city's historical past, as well as a reception centre run by Catholic nuns for impoverished elderly people.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

But most critically, venture capital has eaten away at the remaining vestiges of old-school journalism.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

Yet Lorde views it as her duty as a performer to “bring all these parts of myself forward,” she says — even the songs that seem now like vestiges of a different life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

So, too, we would say, the craters we see on the moon are vestiges of past collisions with asteroids.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton