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The House of Lords is a vestige of the British system of aristocracy.vestige = remaining trace
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She had not yet lost the last vestige of hope.vestige = trace
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A penguin's wings are a vestige of their flying ancestor's wings.vestige = remaining trace
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French territories and overseas departments exist as vestiges of the colonial empire.vestiges = remaining traces
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However, their antennae seemed almost vestigial. (source)vestigial = an unused trace indicative of something once used
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Every vestige of winter was gone from the valley. (source)vestige = last trace (or last little remaining bit)
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With the last vestige of consciousness she jerked her mind and body. (source)vestige = trace or remaining bit (of something)
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... a darkness sucking any last vestiges of hope from his heart. (source)vestiges = traces
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The anatomical illusion that had seemed so real slowly disappeared and—like so much we no longer need but can't give up—became vestigial. (source)vestigial = a trace of something that was previously there
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In order to remove the last vestige of value from this piece of furniture, Father went over to it and pushed his finger under the loose veneer, which snapped off, leaving a strip of bare wood behind it. (source)vestige = trace
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He sat in his car and prepared the last vestiges of the face he had been giving authorities for decades—the face of a bland man they might pity or despise but never blame. (source)vestiges = traces
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We do see vestigial signs of automobiles in our village, but they resemble the signs of life you would dig up in a graveyard if you were inclined to that pastime.† (source)
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in his high school days Abel Martinson had been moderately restless, that in the interim between then and now he had changed, and that this truck was the last vestige of his former self: (source)vestige = trace (small amount)
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the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats. (source)vestiges = traces of things that it were previously there
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Any vestigial hope that her mother had fled the house and hidden somewhere disappeared.† (source)
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Just like that, every vestige of imagined stability ... has come unraveled. (source)vestige = remaining trace
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