hangovers

noun

plural of hangover
as in leftovers

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  1. leftovers
  2. remnants
  3. corpses
  4. remainders
  5. balances
  6. scraps
Noun
  • The leftovers The fact that helium is being lost at all actually tells us something about the composition of the atmosphere.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
  • The discovery of Beta Pictoris d helps clear up a puzzle regarding a disk of dust and debris in this planetary system, which is theorized to be made of the leftovers of planet formation.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of leftovers
Noun
  • The hazardous surf is being sent from tropical storm systems south of California, including Tropical Storm Fausto and the remnants of Tropical Storm Elida.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • Astronomers have detected about 300 such remnants in our galaxy to date.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of remnants
Noun
  • Private equity profits by killing companies to sell their corpses.
    — Robert Niles, Oc Register, 7 July 2026
  • The family’s ordeal worsened Sunday when her brother-in-law found the body of his mother, Rosa María Díaz de Rodríguez, among a pile of corpses.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
Definition of corpses
Noun
  • Perhaps even a rag-tag group of remainders can put a scare into San Antonio.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026
  • The best-case scenario would be for the Lakers’ remainders to extend the best-of-seven series with the Rockets long enough for Doncic and Reaves to rejoin LeBron James in that Big Three, either at the end of this series or the start of the next one.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2026
Definition of remainders
Noun
  • That means late payments, unpaid balances and any resulting damage to credit can affect both people.
    — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
  • In the first quarter, for example, balances on home-equity lines of credit jumped $14 billion from a year earlier, to $446 billion, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of balances
Noun
  • Most resort to begging, performing on the streets, doing manual labor for low pay, scavenging for scraps, or selling drugs.
    — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2026
  • But Messi’s lack of influence owed less to his own ineffectiveness than to Spain’s dominance, which starved him of the ball, leaving him to feed off scraps.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 July 2026
Definition of scraps
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