vestige
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The company’s New Jersey connection is a vestige of its past, when Exxon was part of the conglomerate Standard Oil back in the 19th century.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
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
The company’s prebankruptcy $16.1-billion debt load was a vestige of its 2008 private equity leveraged buyout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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
Art found that he could not bring forward the least vestige of professionalism.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
In northeastern Annaba -- formerly the ancient Roman city of Hippo -- Leo will visit vestiges of the city's historical past, as well as a reception centre run by Catholic nuns for impoverished elderly people.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
But most critically, venture capital has eaten away at the remaining vestiges of old-school journalism.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026
It is also unclear what Netflix would want with Warner’s shrinking cable TV channels and other vestiges of legacy media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Particularly as this dramatic move, removing the remaining vestiges of his royal life, comes with an assertion of his innocence and that he continued to "vigorously deny the accusations against me".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
Perhaps we have inherited only vestiges of the organs needed, only antique and archaic traces of the fragrance, and the memory may be forever gone.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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