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as in rest
a remaining group or portion
sailed home with just a remnant of the colony's original population aboard
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as in remainder
an unused or unwanted piece or item typically of small size or value
gathered together her fabric remnants to see if she had enough of them to sew a doll blanket for her niece
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Recent Examples of remnant
The beaches were dotted with Japanese pillboxes built during the Second World War—the remnants of an occupation only two decades in the past.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
The boutique also carried its own range of cashmere knitwear and shoes — the remnants of which are largely scattered across the wardrobes of extended family.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Stops include Ketchikan, where towering totem poles and Tlingit heritage take center stage, and Skagway, a living remnant of the Gold Rush era, with historic wooden buildings and the scenic White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 18 Feb. 2025
The remnants of its blue shipping crate, sealed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York weeks earlier, were scattered on a nearby ledge, nails poking through plywood.
—Mike Ives, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
The boutique also carried its own range of cashmere knitwear and shoes — the remnants of which are largely scattered across the wardrobes of extended family.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Stops include Ketchikan, where towering totem poles and Tlingit heritage take center stage, and Skagway, a living remnant of the Gold Rush era, with historic wooden buildings and the scenic White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 18 Feb. 2025
The remnants of its blue shipping crate, sealed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York weeks earlier, were scattered on a nearby ledge, nails poking through plywood.
—Mike Ives, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for remnant
Noun
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An additional 63 canisters of waste rest horizontally nearby, including 13 filled with material from the dismantlement project.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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This additional muscle growth will equate to more calories burned at rest than just using cardio sessions to burn calories.7 Combining cardio and weight lifting could produce more noticeable results than doing one alone.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
3 Mar. 2025
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These might include harvesting and offsetting gains and losses, charitable gifts to offset gain, charitable remainder trusts to defer the taxable gain on diversification, exchange funds, and so forth.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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First-person tales about cancer, freak accidents, chronic disease, and mental breakdowns regularly make their way onto best-seller lists (or into remainder bins).—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Cheese or Dairy Products Cheese and dairy scraps are other food items not to be used in compost.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
26 Feb. 2025
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Food scraps scattered along the roadside attract rodents, which in turn draw owls to hunt them.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Remnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remnant. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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