Words similar to remnant

Example sentences for: remnant

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It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.
Among them are the mystical, ultra-observant Hasidim; their enclave in Jerusalem, the Mea She’arim neighborhood, is a small remnant of those traditional Jewish communities in Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania that were consumed by the Holocaust.
The orfs adjacent to cg4715 (two upstream and two downstream) appear to be non-homologous to retrovirus orfs (data not shown) suggesting that it may either be an insect gene or a remnant of an integrated retroelement.
Rather than being an evolutionary remnant, it is a dynamic and continually adapting system.
The 14th-century battlemented tower to the left is the remnant of an old abbey.