vestige

Now, nearly two years after the most recent discharge was announced, borrowers say they can’t escape the last vestige of this debt: It still appears on their credit reports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Xochimilco is the last living vestige of the Aztec era,” says Arozarena.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

When I arrived in the parking lot on an August Saturday afternoon, I immediately saw a pink Cadillac, a vestige of the Cupid’s Outlet.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

The company’s prebankruptcy $16.1-billion debt load was a vestige of its 2008 private equity leveraged buyout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

She’d always thought they would die when she did, but some vestige of life was in them yet—the last tatters of her own, till sunrise could turn them to smoke.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

So these are not just sort of weird random afterthoughts or vestiges.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Broken computer monitors in bombed-out offices, scattered fake police uniforms and phoney hundred-dollar bills: these were the vestiges of a frantic escape of suspected cyberscammers fleeing a resort on the Cambodia-Thailand border.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

But most critically, venture capital has eaten away at the remaining vestiges of old-school journalism.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

There were wild blackberries and raspberries blanketing the hillsides, and vestiges of old fruit orchards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Grace, tame as well, though with sneaky vestiges of wild.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood