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vestige

[ves-tij] / ˈvɛs tɪdʒ /


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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

In that sense, Deathracer413 is more than a subcultural vestige — its members present a sports medicine study of sorts, says Michael Burnett, editor in chief of “Thrasher Magazine,” a longtime skateboarding publication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

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

There were sharp changes in economic and social life in the decades after Constantine III. Manufacturing industries collapsed and the last vestiges of urban life vanished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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

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


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