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

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

"The last vestiges of working-class politics were imperiously wiped out," wrote Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil in their book on the period they call "India's first dictatorship".

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

But sponsors stretched the English language when they pitched it as ending the last vestiges of “slavery.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

Yet today’s cruise ships continue to trade on the vestiges of their upper-class mystique, even while offering new amenities like onboard ice skating and wall climbing.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times