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Vestigial in sentence

13 examples of Vestigial in a sentence

It's a very vestigial system.
Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants?
There are several other vestigial structures like the plica semilunaris in the human body.
Most of these became vestigial long before homo sapiens existed, quietly riding along from one of our ancestor species to the next.
Up to 85% of people have a vestigial muscle called the “palmaris longus.”
Vestigial traits can persist when there’s no incentive to lose them— but since there’s also no incentive to keep them, random mutations will sometimes still eliminate them from part of the population.
Unlike other vestigial structures, though, the appendix isn’t always harmless— it can become dangerously inflamed.
The gimmick of the vestigial growing arm storyline is never really developed.
Some movies are so bad, they leave a vestigial imprint on your memory cells which one wishes could be obliterated.
A victory for the “out” mindset – which seems to regard compassion, truth, and integrity as if they were vestigial limbs – would be Pyrrhic, at best.
Conversely, fructose, while also an energy source, is a vestigial nutrient for humans; our cells do not need it to function.
Worse yet, other than the ephemeral pleasure that it provides, there is not a single biochemical process that requires dietary fructose; it is a vestigial nutrient, left over from the evolutionary differentiation between plants and animals.
But that vestigial source of American supremacy made Bernanke a constructive and effective international leader.