vestiges
Example Sentences
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Around the office were vestiges of times gone by.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
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
The distinction between two very different types of inference, between vestiges and analogies, is still important for Locke.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
