vestige

Example Sentences

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The middle layers of management—so central to today’s corporate structure—could be a vestige of the past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Everywhere Jay and his entourage go, a piece of cheesecake follows, the last, haunting vestige of a star’s rider that should’ve been updated long ago.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2025

In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

Today, some defunct European dynasties maintain their chivalric orders as a lingering vestige of the power they once held.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024

This does rather neatly tie the rise of modern Europe to the death of the last vestige of the old Roman Empire.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin