remaining

adjective

re·​main·​ing ri-ˈmā-niŋ 

: left over after a part has been destroyed, taken, used, or lost

Dough should not stick to sides of bowl; if it does, add some or all of remaining 2 tablespoons of bread flour until dough cleans sides of bowl.

—Tish Boyle

"You're good people," Kugelmass said, combing his few remaining hairs as he climbed into the cabinet again.

—Woody Allen

The researchers, focusing on distinct oral languages, not dialects, interviewed and made recordings of the few remaining speakers of a language and collected basic word lists.

—John Noble Wilford

Examples of remaining in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In a special election Tuesday to fill the remaining months of Buck's term, Republican Greg Lopez, a former mayor of the city of Parker, beat a Democrat and third-party candidates. —Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 June 2024

Over the years, a succession of legal cases (initiated by Austrian activist lawyer Max Schrems) has systemically removed the legal justifications that Meta can use for this tracking, again leaving it with valid consent as the only remaining option. —Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2024

Yet all three reluctantly conclude that since that option is off the table, the best remaining choice may be to scrap the system altogether. —Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016

The Magic have the easiest remaining schedule among all 30 NBA teams. —Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above