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holdover
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Still, even with the ruling in place, discrimination and surveillance continue — holdovers from centuries of colonial rule.
“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.
The three specialists, along with Ficken, are holdovers from the previous regime.
“The Life of Chuck” feels like a holdover from this era of feel-good fare, reworked and retrofitted to align with our contemporary anxieties.
"I think there's a holdover from the boomer generation here in America that lived through the Cold War," Buck says, "and I don't quite grasp why - but they say Russia's bad."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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