remnant
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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
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
Leftover pizza gets cut up, crisped on the stove and mixed into scrambled eggs—a remnant from Duggal’s college days that she has christened “pizza eggs.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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
Thomas had almost expected the skeletal remnant of a person—someone on the verge of death.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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