remainder
noun
something 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
Now, as they slurp the remainders of their lunch, she cautiously allows the words to escape.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
Not only have they lost newspapers, the remainders are mostly owned by parsimonious national chains.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 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
I pulled it out and saw the name of the man who’d helped Mr. Highgate and who was looking after Mr. Leroy’s earthy remainders, Mr. Benjamin Alston!
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
