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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
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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
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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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