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Now, nearly two years after the most recent discharge was announced, borrowers say they can’t escape the last vestige of this debt: It still appears on their credit reports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Xochimilco is the last living vestige of the Aztec era,” says Arozarena.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

When I arrived in the parking lot on an August Saturday afternoon, I immediately saw a pink Cadillac, a vestige of the Cupid’s Outlet.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Hainu, a vestige of the Japanese colonial era, shares some similarities with the centuries-old matriarchal tradition of haenyeo free-diving in South Korea, although Taiwan's sea women do not go underwater.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

She’d always thought they would die when she did, but some vestige of life was in them yet—the last tatters of her own, till sunrise could turn them to smoke.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

So these are not just sort of weird random afterthoughts or vestiges.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

They were among the last vestiges of foreign investment in an economy dominated by the communist state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

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

But most critically, venture capital has eaten away at the remaining vestiges of old-school journalism.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

By the time of Anna’s death, the informal system of citizen policing had been displaced, but vestiges of it remained, especially in places that still seemed to exist on the periphery of geography and history.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann