remainder
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If it is a wear-and-tear thing, there might be no solution besides management over the remainder of his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Chilean copper miner Antofagasta said second-quarter copper production held broadly steady, and backed its full-year guidance as it expects a pickup through the remainder of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Hancock announced his resignation last month, and Abbott said he would tap Huffines, Abbott’s one-time gubernatorial challenger, to fill the remainder of the term.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Unlike the 20-minute version which leaves a team down on numbers only temporarily, Fiji had to play with 14 men for the remainder of the game.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Their walk would conclude at the brand-new British Museum, where they would spend the remainder of the afternoon touring the galleries and perhaps pop in on a lecture or two.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
On the other are the remainders – the gamers, the “Real World” guy and that “Bachelor,” who devised a strategy that led to them rooting out two Traitors.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
Now, as they slurp the remainders of their lunch, she cautiously allows the words to escape.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
Not only have they lost newspapers, the remainders are mostly owned by parsimonious national chains.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Other remainders include the use of much recorded music, leaving the terrific musicians on hand, like Jiménez and the pianist Anibal César Cruz, underused.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
I pulled it out and saw the name of the man who’d helped Mr. Highgate and who was looking after Mr. Leroy’s earthy remainders, Mr. Benjamin Alston!
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yes, off-brands and remaindered products made up the bulk of offerings, but treasures awaited for those who regularly came.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
Evidence of past fires appeared in swaths of forest remaindered into black skeletons.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2021
Didn’t I just buy that, remaindered, for 25 cents?
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2015
Clive James captured the feeling in a poem that takes its title from its first line: “The book of my enemy has been remaindered/ And I am pleased.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2013
He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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