vestige
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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
Hainu, a vestige of the Japanese colonial era, shares some similarities with the centuries-old matriarchal tradition of haenyeo free-diving in South Korea, although Taiwan's sea women do not go underwater.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Reason magazine calls it the “lost remnants of a pre-vibe-shift culture, the last vestige of a fully woke world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
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
Art found that he could not bring forward the least vestige of professionalism.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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They were among the last vestiges of foreign investment in an economy dominated by the communist state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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
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
But there were vestiges of a less modern life, too—merchants selling sardines and cabbage by the roadside, crude homes of brick and mud.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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