as in remainders
an unused or unwanted piece or item typically of small size or value
a patchwork quilt sewn together from the fag ends of many bolts of cloth
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Noun
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In this week’s show, there were slinky fabrics and macho outerwear, and scraps of fur over jersey dresses clinging to terrific asses of all sizes.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026 -
On Christmas Eve, 125 volunteers turned out to pick up insulation and other scraps of debris the storm left in its wake.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
17 Feb. 2026
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And within that galaxy, not only will stars live-and-die, and not only will star-formation cease once all of the gas has been consumed, but gravitational interactions will eject most of those stellar corpses, as well as the planet remnants that orbit them.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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These soon give way to montages, collages, and montages of collages, each aimed at transforming tangible remnants of memory, like photographs, into abstract depictions of a life lived.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Fag ends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fag%20ends. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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