remainder
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Prosecutors say they received the funds through US bank accounts, kept a portion for themselves and transferred the remainder to alleged co-conspirators in Kenya linked to a purported safari company.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The first Black US president headlined three rallies this week for Democratic candidates in next Tuesday's elections, with voters picking lawmakers who will serve for the remainder of President Donald Trump's term.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
If successful in buying the remainder, the organisations claim there is the potential to develop a "40-mile nature recovery corridor stretching from the North East coast to Kielder on the central Scottish border".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Gaspar had about $185,000 available for the remainder of the campaign, compared with about $72,000 for Worth Girvan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Hurley also kept a Kodak pocket camera and three rolls of film, with which he documented the remainder of the crew’s odyssey.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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
One way to count them is to partition them into a finite number of baskets, based on the remainders one gets when dividing a prime by another prime, denoted byp.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 15, 2022
For supper we ate the remainders from the plates of Inkstained and Goldbuttons—cold tongue and brown bread.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am pleased.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
I take out the unopened player, a fossil preserved in molded plastic, remaindered from an old RadioShack somewhere.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2018
Could the front office trade possibly 17 draft picks and some remaindered No. 10 jerseys to move up for Sam Darnold, and then fly to a Caribbean island to celebrate?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2017
He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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