remainder
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But Netflix projected slower growth for the remainder of the year, projecting revenue of $13.4 billion, less than what analysts had forecast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
An expected rise in copper grades over the remainder of the year helped the miner keep its full-year guidance despite a 5% fall in quarterly output due to snowfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
At this point, I expect I will be renting for the remainder of my life.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
There was an eight-minute stoppage before the Argentina international was replaced by Mike Penders, who made his Premier League debut for Chelsea, and saw out the remainder of the match.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
They didn’t speak again for the remainder of their walk.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
Piggy wore the remainders of a pair of shorts, his fat body was golden brown, and the glasses still flashed when he looked at anything.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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
Didn’t I just buy that, remaindered, for 25 cents?
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2015
Clive James captured the feeling in a poem that takes its title from its first line: “The book of my enemy has been remaindered/ And I am pleased.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2013
He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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