remainder
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The remainder of 2007, early 2008, I have a phone to my ear at all times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Baker-Mazara is looking to recoup the remainder of his contract with USC and is also seeking damages for the decline of his NBA draft stock in light of his dismissal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court overturned Thursday a presidential pardon granted to a hardline Buddhist monk and ordered him to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The BBC understands the England and Wales Cricket Board has checked on wellbeing of the Pakistani under-19s team, and is reviewing security arrangements for the remainder of their tour.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
He peers at the remainder of my chips cupped in my left hand, as if wondering what they are, so perplexed is his expression.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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
Jackson and Bishop have both said they would serve out the remainders of their U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
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
If necessary, he could then test the remainders of each of the fifty samples individually.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
He recently bought a 44,000-pound load of about 38,000 remaindered books.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
After her sterling Pacific service she was then remaindered and renamed the Lord Sandwich, and ended up carrying Hessian troops to New York in a vain attempt to counter the American Revolution.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2019
I take out the unopened player, a fossil preserved in molded plastic, remaindered from an old RadioShack somewhere.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2018
He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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