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 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

Particularly as this dramatic move, removing the remaining vestiges of his royal life, comes with an assertion of his innocence and that he continued to "vigorously deny the accusations against me".

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

Back then, Korsh was a first-time TV creator and showrunner helming one of the vestiges of USA network’s “blue sky” era, which consisted of bright and breezy dramas like “White Collar” and “Monk.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2025

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