remnant
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The remnant of rainforests that remain in Scotland face two main threats, from deer and rhododendron.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Jean’s passion took a more private toll, but she still lives with what Monica calls “this deepening suspicion that your existence is a remnant of an event long since concluded.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Researchers suspect it could be a remnant of an early planet that was torn apart by massive collisions, or possibly a fragment of a once-layered body that lost its outer rocky shell.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
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
As I gazed numbly at the sky, it seemed to have turned a preterpaturally pale shade of blue, bleached of all but the faintest remnant of color.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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