remnant

Example Sentences

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The only remnant of Karee Rowen’s Pacific Palisades home was her washing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

The arrangement resembles an "acquihire" – a practice increasingly common in Silicon Valley where larger tech companies poach key staff from smaller firms, leaving a small remnant of the company behind.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

But she is left with anxiety — a remnant of the fire for which no one has offered her help — and a sense of dislocation and discontent.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

She’s a remnant of a déclassé life that Simone wants to leave behind.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

In this last remnant of the American frontier, Hale was revered as the “King of the Osage Hills.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann