remnant

Example Sentences

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Yet with the final remnant of muscular control in his right thumb, he spelled out letters at an adapted typewriter beside Edith.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The arrangement resembles an "acquihire" – a practice increasingly common in Silicon Valley where larger tech companies poach key staff from smaller firms, leaving a small remnant of the company behind.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

But she is left with anxiety — a remnant of the fire for which no one has offered her help — and a sense of dislocation and discontent.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

While these remnant patches are important and need protecting, our historical findings should urge us to be more ambitious in restoring the seafloor.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2025

But despite the close agreement in position Helfand and Long do not insist that the gamma ray outburst is associated with the supernova remnant.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan