remainders
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pluralof remainder.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
remaindernounsomething that remains or is left. -
present tense formof remainder (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
remaindernounsomething that remains or is left.
Example Sentences
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On the other are the remainders – the gamers, the “Real World” guy and that “Bachelor,” who devised a strategy that led to them rooting out two Traitors.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
Jackson and Bishop have both said they would serve out the remainders of their U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Now, as they slurp the remainders of their lunch, she cautiously allows the words to escape.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
One way to count them is to partition them into a finite number of baskets, based on the remainders one gets when dividing a prime by another prime, denoted byp.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 15, 2022
For supper we ate the remainders from the plates of Inkstained and Goldbuttons—cold tongue and brown bread.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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