leftover
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Keytruda is administered at the same time to help make sure the patient’s immune response activates against the leftover cancer cells.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Hobby spending is a small amount of overall retail sales, but it's a good gauge of whether consumers have any money leftover in their budgets."
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
About 12% of Reformation’s materials are deadstock, or leftover fabric from other factories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
My wildcards were honey, for the vegetables and leftover cornbread, and basil, mostly for color and romance.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Little explosions—very little, you could hold one in your hand and it probably wouldn’t hurt—were erupting from everyone’s textbooks and a few of the leftover Antarctica salt-relief maps that Daniel hadn’t eaten.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
"I have noticed it loves fried rice a lot! The way he eats up my fried rice leftovers - very voracious," laughs Promise.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Chemed said it buys sports tickets for business purposes and that its CEO, a "huge sports fan," sometimes uses leftovers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
This is not the freezer as bunker, or the freezer as punishment, or the freezer as the place where leftovers go to await their eventual quiet disposal.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
And to come home not with leftovers, but perhaps a painting of their own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Puffskein is a scavenger that will eat anything from leftovers to spiders, but it has a particular preference for sticking its tongue up the nose of sleeping wizards and eating their bogies.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
