vestiges

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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

It is also unclear what Netflix would want with Warner’s shrinking cable TV channels and other vestiges of legacy media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

"The last vestiges of working-class politics were imperiously wiped out," wrote Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil in their book on the period they call "India's first dictatorship".

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

However, after declaring America's independence from England, Thomas Jefferson and other founders believed their legislative and political actions had already eliminated the remaining vestiges of European feudalism.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

Gassendi saw no need to make an explicit distinction between the evidence of vestiges and the evidence of witnesses, but he certainly did not think that the scar ‘testifies’ to the wound.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton