remnants
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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These protein remnants are nearly 100 million years older than any previously identified in fossils.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
All she can point to is a garage stuffed with throw pillows, remnants of her shriveled dream to design interior spaces for affluent clients.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
But after being routed by the army there, the remnants fled across the border.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
In October, a combined Austrian-German-Bulgarian invasion finally succeeded in crushing Serbia, occupying the kingdom and driving the defeated remnants of the Serbian army out completely.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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