remaining

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adjective

re·​main·​ing ri-ˈmā-niŋ 

: left over after a part has been destroyed, taken, used, or lost

Dough should not stick to sides of bowl; if it does, add some or all of remaining 2 tablespoons of bread flour until dough cleans sides of bowl.

—Tish Boyle

"You're good people," Kugelmass said, combing his few remaining hairs as he climbed into the cabinet again.

—Woody Allen

The researchers, focusing on distinct oral languages, not dialects, interviewed and made recordings of the few remaining speakers of a language and collected basic word lists.

—John Noble Wilford

remaining

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present participle of remain entry 1

Examples of remaining in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

With no more remaining legal hurdles to clear, the merger is expected to close within days, most likely on October 6. — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

The highlight was a hike to a chain of lakes fed by one of the state’s last remaining glaciers. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

The outages were scattered across DTE's service area in Metro Detroit, with Oakland and Livingston counties having the most remaining outages. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026

Officials blamed that attack on the National Liberation Army, Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group. — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for remaining

• abstaining
• attaining
• campaigning
• complaining
• constraining
• containing
• detaining
• disdaining
• entraining
• explaining
• maintaining
• obtaining