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  • noun Plural form of vestige.

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Examples

  • Long assumed to be vestiges from the time when whale ancestors had body hair, it now seems that these structures have a role in sensing vibrations.

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  • Long assumed to be vestiges from the time when whale ancestors had body hair, it now seems that these structures have a role in sensing vibrations.

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  • There were no leeches, no film or scum or snapping turtles, no monstrous vestiges from the Cretaceous Age lurking in the depths.

    Excerpt: A Map of The World by Jane Hamilton 1999

  • And I knew that the falling wreckage might contain vestiges of personal friends; certainly acquaintances.

    Above the Clouds at Thirty Below 1944

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  • It certainly would have been more liberating than just being confined in a memory chamber where periodically he could recall vestiges of family happiness enough to remember some specifics but otherwise only felt their deep residue.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • If the Clinton's still have a penny to their name, that penny should go to paying down the "vestiges" of her debt.

    Bill Clinton lends a hand on wife's debt 2010

  • What is left in that apartment are what could all too easily be termed "vestiges" of a lifetime.

    Stephanie Gertler: The Ravages Of Time 2009

  • In 1986, after nine years of litigation about removing the "vestiges" of segregation, a district judge, Russell Clark, decided that that goal justified judicial Caesarism.

    From Topeka To Kansas City 2008

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