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Rome so thoroughly inbred in the nominally tolerant, vestigially Protestant culture that dominated the printed and spoken media.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

Here's the poll that happens to fit your prejudices, however vestigially.

Spin and plots don't work in a post-debate age 2010

It was and still vestigially remains a hunter-gatherer culture, with people moving from the desert to the uplands in the wet season, to foothill pools after the rains and along the river in the dry season, when this becomes a vital resource and refuge.

Purnululu National Park, Australia 2008

Not only can you find the Aurora Borealis (yes, localized in your kitchen at this time of day and year, and in any part of the globe), but you can also investigate old televisions shows that your mind retains vestigially in the darker parts of memory (not to mention the ability to annotate everything you write with words and pictures, video and sound...)

Archive 2006-10-01 K. A. Laity 2006

Not only can you find the Aurora Borealis (yes, localized in your kitchen at this time of day and year, and in any part of the globe), but you can also investigate old televisions shows that your mind retains vestigially in the darker parts of memory (not to mention the ability to annotate everything you write with words and pictures, video and sound...)

Reason 84,373,958 Why the Internet is So Good K. A. Laity 2006

The city has never gone through a worse era of bad food than the low-fat mania of the 1980s, still vestigially represented in the marketplace by awful products like TASTI D-LITE.

Grease is good | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2005

Somehow, I bought it, though this film runs counter to every feel-good fantasy in the movies, even those designed for the vestigially larcenous impulses of the most law-abiding moviegoers.

Nicolas Cage's Twitchy Con Man Takes the Dad Rap 2003

These are people who speak of the process as an end in itself, connected only nominally, and vestigially, to the electorate and its possible concerns.

Insider Baseball Didion, Joan 1988

A shirtsleeve had been ripped at the seam and it dangled vestigially.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

A shirtsleeve had been ripped at the seam and it dangled vestigially.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986