vestige

Example Sentences

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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

In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

The company is burdened with nearly $40 billion in debt, a vestige of Discovery’s takeover of WarnerMedia from AT&T nearly three years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2025

Mal nodded the smallest vestige of a nod.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell