remainder
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The park, near Doncaster, will remain closed for the remainder of the weekend, it added.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Viatris said it plans to fund the Pacira acquisition primarily from excess cash, with the remainder from short-term borrowings, adding that it expects the deal will have minimal impact on its gross leverage ratio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
After the death of Lindsey Graham on July 11, Gov. Henry McMaster chose the late senator’s sister, Darline, to serve out the remainder of her brother’s term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Watt, who has been filling in for Romo as the color commentator on CBS Sports’ lead NFL broadcast team, will continue in the role for the remainder of the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Door eyed the remainder of Coal’s slice of pizza hungrily.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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
Not only have they lost newspapers, the remainders are mostly owned by parsimonious national chains.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 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
I pulled it out and saw the name of the man who’d helped Mr. Highgate and who was looking after Mr. Leroy’s earthy remainders, Mr. Benjamin Alston!
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yes, off-brands and remaindered products made up the bulk of offerings, but treasures awaited for those who regularly came.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
He recently bought a 44,000-pound load of about 38,000 remaindered books.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am pleased.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
Didn’t I just buy that, remaindered, for 25 cents?
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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