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remainder

[ri-meyn-der] / rɪˈmeɪn dər /


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The improvement also persisted for the remainder of the study.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

There is no especially good reason for this, and it pretty much evaporates for the remainder of the eight-episode series.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

But 59% think that his level of support is about right, as do 47% of Pennsylvania’s electorate, with the remainder evenly divided between the “too much” and “not enough” camps.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Publishing his outlook for the remainder of the year on Tuesday, JPMorgan’s strategist Mislav Matejka also finds that “we do not expect rising bond yields to present an insurmountable obstacle for stocks.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

Otherwise, all the remainder of Africa’s domestic mammals must have been domesticated elsewhere and introduced as domesticates to Africa, because their wild ancestors occur only in Eurasia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

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

For supper we ate the remainders from the plates of Inkstained and Goldbuttons—cold tongue and brown bread.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

I take out the unopened player, a fossil preserved in molded plastic, remaindered from an old RadioShack somewhere.

From Slate Apr. 9, 2018

Sherman Alexi's indiscretions were worse and far more prolonged, by his own admission, but his books aren't being remaindered.

From New York Times Mar. 27, 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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