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The phrase "a leftover of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that remains from a previous situation or event, often in the context of food or remnants of a larger whole.
Example: "After the party, there was a leftover of pizza that we decided to save for lunch the next day."
Alternatives: "a remnant of" or "a remainder of".
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A blue nylon rope is suspended from an overhanging branch, a leftover of daredevil summer exuberance.
"It's a leftover of how the organizations came to be," she said.
For a long time, the museum was seen as a "leftover of the British," Ms. Mehta said.
Those laws, a leftover of the Zia era, mandate a death sentence for anyone convicted of insulting Islam.
Many secondary farm structures, such as smokehouses and well houses, are a leftover of the past, but some are necessary in specialized farms.
The wrangling with the Montenegrins is driven to some extent by their own power struggles, but is also a leftover of the damage wrought by the previous government.
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A), Leftovers of the LVRAG1 gene identified in Scaffold19893 code for the RAG1/Transib transposase core ~55% identical to SPRAG1L (pos. 420 978).
"There is kind of a leftover image of the waveform if you look at the piece on its side or at a slight angle.
The index patient of S. Mbandaka provided a leftover sample of sprout X brand alfalfa sprouts.
Ascension Island is a tiny leftover of empire, a volcanic island 700 miles from anywhere.
If God moulded Adam from human clay, then Jones must have come from a leftover lump of Plasticine.
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