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[rend] / rɛnd /




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"If global debt resumes its rising rend going forward, the debt rollercoaster since the pandemic will look nothing more than a temporary deviation around its long-term rising trend."

From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023

Snook does everything but rend her garments in a performance that only emphasizes the busy vapidity of Hannah Kent’s script.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

Some people have wondered if his departure in early 2016 didn’t somehow rend the fabric of space-time and send us hurtling into a dimension of alternate outcomes.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2021

And that remains its role now, as thousands of researchers join forces in a collective mission: to better know SARS-CoV-2 and to rend that virus’s complexities into a blueprint to plan its containment and control.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 10, 2021

Then the Black Captain rose in his stirrups and cried aloud in a dreadful voice, speaking in some forgotten tongue words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Noted playwright Hudes pens a stunning debut novel that rends conventional notions of motherhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025

We find her at a bleak roadside cemetery where her grief rends the air.

From BBC ● May 9, 2023

What’s left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society?

From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

As a result, Alisa makes a terrible choice that rends the family forever.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

From thy auspicious shrine I hope a cure For the corroding pain that rends my heart.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

Instead, properties are now rented on a rolling basis, which means tenants pay rent weekly or monthly with no fixed end date.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

"We have to generate the money from the shop for me to pay you. So if I pay you, pay electricity bills, shop rent and you steal some, where am I expected to generate money?"

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

But Seaport’s Goldberg has some valuation concerns about the broader AI ecosystem, specifically related to neocloud companies that purchase and rent out Nvidia’s graphics processing units.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The homeowner didn’t charge him rent, and the truck Buchanan drove was a gift, the woman told agents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“We could rent it out for a summer or two, that is all I ask.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

When I defended the author and the decision to run his op-ed, there was more rending of garments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

And so a proper rending of garments was had.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024

The rending of hair and gnashing of teeth has begun.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

Holley is volcanically self-expressive in his visual art, whether rending tiny wires into human profiles or planning massive statues from uncut granite and gleaming metal.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

What did that have to do with this momentous rending of the veil, I wondered.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez


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