remainder
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Organizers canceled the remainder of the Pride festivities and evening concert as emergency responders flooded the area and authorities secured the scene.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
The CGF is investing £100m of this, with the remainder coming from commercial revenue streams such as ticketing, sponsorship, broadcast rights and merchandise.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
If it is a wear-and-tear thing, there might be no solution besides management over the remainder of his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Carlsberg will hold a 75% stake, retain full operational control and receive $643 million in cash from Sapporo, which will hold the remainder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
At noon the men heaved the laden boat out on the backwash of a breaking wave, and the remainder of the stores was ferried out on the Stancomb Wills.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
One way to count them is to partition them into a finite number of baskets, based on the remainders one gets when dividing a prime by another prime, denoted byp.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 15, 2022
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
He recently bought a 44,000-pound load of about 38,000 remaindered books.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
Dog Eared Books is perfectly cluttered, with a mix of new, used and remaindered books.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019
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
He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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