vestige

“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 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

This does rather neatly tie the rise of modern Europe to the death of the last vestige of the old Roman Empire.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

“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

Perhaps we have inherited only vestiges of the organs needed, only antique and archaic traces of the fragrance, and the memory may be forever gone.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas