vestiges

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Broken computer monitors in bombed-out offices, scattered fake police uniforms and phoney hundred-dollar bills: these were the vestiges of a frantic escape of suspected cyberscammers fleeing a resort on the Cambodia-Thailand border.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

There were wild blackberries and raspberries blanketing the hillsides, and vestiges of old fruit orchards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Prince Andrew's removal from the last vestiges of royal life has not only reshaped his future - it's sending ripples through his family too.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

Yet Lorde views it as her duty as a performer to “bring all these parts of myself forward,” she says — even the songs that seem now like vestiges of a different life.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025

But there were vestiges of a less modern life, too—merchants selling sardines and cabbage by the roadside, crude homes of brick and mud.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers