Meaning & use
remaining
Still present or left after the rest of a group or amount has gone or been used.
See it in a sentence
Divide the remaining cookies evenly between the two waiting children.
Only a handful of the remaining tickets were still available by Friday.
A note on using this word
Remaining is placed before the noun it describes, as in 'remaining time', and rarely stands alone after a verb.
Words with a similar meaning
leftoversurviving
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