remnants

noun

plural of remnant
1
as in remainders
a remaining group or portion sailed home with just a remnant of the colony's original population aboard

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2
as in scraps
an unused or unwanted piece or item typically of small size or value gathered together her fabric remnants to see if she had enough of them to sew a doll blanket for her niece

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Recent Examples of remnants The damage comes only a year after intense October 2025 flooding, driven by the remnants of Pacific cyclones. — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2026 Scientists can spot remnants of gamma-ray bursts by looking for X-rays and optical light as the gamma rays themselves fade. — Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026 Foreign jihadists and remnants of Saddam’s Baath Party formed the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and overran much of Iraq and Syria in 2014 and 2015. — S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026 Turning those remnants into a picture of ancient metabolism will require further work. — New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026 Yet comets are not the only icy remnants that date back to such primordial times. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 Nov. 2026 But rather than dispose of the fragments, the congregation gave the remnants of the window a new purpose. — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026 Outside, on the stoop of the townhouse, the last remnants of the winter air have congealed on this chilly spring night. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026 Corroded jewelry and the tattered remnants of ancient clothing only tell part of a much larger story, but sometimes an object offers up a bit more detail. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for remnants
  1. remainders
  2. scraps
  3. rests
  4. residues
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
  • Now, students collect and weigh their scraps, and Lovin's master gardener takes them to the bin outdoors.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • There are scraps of industrial, cybergrind, metalcore, and death metal in this stew, as well as a healthy garnish of Godflesh’s machinelike relentlessness, all of it well balanced.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of scraps
Noun
  • The whole house climaxes with a kaleidoscopic pièce de résistance at the top of the dome, where a large skylight rests, revealing an interplay of two sets of the red-orange ribs.
    — Web Behrens, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Tiisetso’s view The treasury’s effort to lock in the progress in reining in spending rests on an optimistic premise that letting politicians explain themselves will keep them in line.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of rests
Noun
  • Canopy‘s modeling puts the available potential of four residues alone at roughly 245 million dry tons a year, and that is after leaving half of every straw crop on the field for soil health.
    — Kari Stoever, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The shelf with personal items has a buildup of food residues and flour dust.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of residues

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“Remnants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remnants. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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