vestiges

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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

It is also unclear what Netflix would want with Warner’s shrinking cable TV channels and other vestiges of legacy media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

"The last vestiges of working-class politics were imperiously wiped out," wrote Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil in their book on the period they call "India's first dictatorship".

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

We know from experience why the country had DEI programs, because we remember Jim Crow and its vestiges in segregated schools and neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

He managed to climb above the opening, but when he slid down and entered the rock place, he saw nothing a woman could use and the vestiges of human habitation were Cold.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison