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remnant

[rem-nuhnt] / ˈrɛm nənt /


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The firm in March bought a majority stake in Oak Point Partners, which buys what it calls remnant assets from companies, often in the course of bankruptcies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Planning documents lodged for the property said it "occupies an elevated position overlooking the Usk Valley, set within extensive landscaped grounds and the remnant parkland of a former estate".

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Detailed spectral modeling showed that 12 of the 14 candidates were genuine remnant radio galaxies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Astronomers have identified a little-studied population of faint remnant radio galaxies that appear to fade quickly after their central supermassive black holes stop producing powerful radio jets.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Huge, lopsided remnant bergs bobbed and heaved in the waves, and small chunks of broken floe knocked and scraped along the sides of the Caird.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

In fact, Shameson said, remnants of hurricanes and tropical storms have reached Southern California the last three or four years in a row, compared with a normal pace of every five to 10 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

However, scientists have now found that these stellar remnants can produce a much broader spectrum of colors.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Others that have accumulated material from destroyed asteroids and comets, remnants of planetary systems that once surrounded them, tend to look yellow.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

It weakened rapidly and ceased to be a hurricane but its remnants threw heavy rain across the eastern side of North America.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The only real difference was that instead of basing their numbers on 60 as the Babylonians did, the Mayans had a vigesimal, base-20 system that had the remnants of an earlier base-10 system in it.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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