holdover

Example Sentences

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Land power is a vital part—not as a legacy holdover, but as a hedge against uncertainty and a foundation for political effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 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

Instead, he said, it was the result of an “undetectable holdover fire” that lived deep within the roots.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 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