as in remainder
a remaining group or portion
even highly decaffeinated coffee contains a tiny residuum of caffeine
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Recent Examples of residuum
Players then have the opportunity to revisit the spot where Colt met his end and reclaim the residuum, which disappears if the time loop resets.
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Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
In plain, spare prose, Hersey documents scenes of unprecedented ruin, capturing the ghostly residuum of calamity.
—Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2021
Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
In plain, spare prose, Hersey documents scenes of unprecedented ruin, capturing the ghostly residuum of calamity.
—Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for residuum
Noun
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These might include harvesting and offsetting gains and losses, charitable gifts to offset gain, charitable remainder trusts to defer the taxable gain on diversification, exchange funds, and so forth.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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First-person tales about cancer, freak accidents, chronic disease, and mental breakdowns regularly make their way onto best-seller lists (or into remainder bins).—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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An additional 63 canisters of waste rest horizontally nearby, including 13 filled with material from the dismantlement project.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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This additional muscle growth will equate to more calories burned at rest than just using cardio sessions to burn calories.7 Combining cardio and weight lifting could produce more noticeable results than doing one alone.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Meghan Markle is still holding onto a remnant of her Suits era.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
3 Mar. 2025
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This leaves a stellar remnant with between one and two times the mass of the sun condensed into a width of around 12 miles (20 kilometers).—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Residuum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/residuum. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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