vestige
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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
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
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
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
This does rather neatly tie the rise of modern Europe to the death of the last vestige of the old Roman Empire.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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