holdover

Example Sentences

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Instead it’s a holdover from a bygone era of the gold standard, fixed exchange rates and periodic panics about global liquidity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Miran can stay on as a holdover until a successor is confirmed, but that seat is spoken for—it is the vehicle for installing the new chair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Companies have skimped on dividends amid an epic bull run for stock prices, leaving the S&P 500’s yield of just 1.1% looking like finance’s vestigial tailbone—an evolutionary holdover without a clear purpose.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

“Who’d have thought Oasis, the Britpop holdover that seemingly couldn’t be more out of vogue, could fill Staples Center?” the Orange County Register wrote about the evening.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Descartes was a late holdover, a victim of his success in marrying algebra to geometry.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife