vestige
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The company’s New Jersey connection is a vestige of its past, when Exxon was part of the conglomerate Standard Oil back in the 19th century.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
They were tough sanctions, removing any vestige of royal status.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
The middle layers of management—so central to today’s corporate structure—could be a vestige of the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Everywhere Jay and his entourage go, a piece of cheesecake follows, the last, haunting vestige of a star’s rider that should’ve been updated long ago.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2025
Somehow, he would find the courage to finish what he had started fifteen years ago, and free his people from this last vestige of their long torment.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
“It effectively killed the last vestiges of ’80s glam rock, all that hair, metal and theatrics,” says Fink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
Prince Andrew's removal from the last vestiges of royal life has not only reshaped his future - it's sending ripples through his family too.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
But there were vestiges of a less modern life, too—merchants selling sardines and cabbage by the roadside, crude homes of brick and mud.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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