Both Uses
remnant
in
Oryx and Crake
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- He wills them into being, these possible remnants who might have survived in isolated pockets, cut off by the shutdown of the communications networks, keeping themselves alive somehow.†
p. 222.3 *remnants = small amounts that remains after the rest is gone
- Remnant†
p. 348.1remnant = a small amount that remains after the rest is gone
Definitions:
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(1)
(remnant) a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)