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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

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

James Burns, head of a volunteer parks advisory council, is keenly aware of the divisions that rend the city, having moved from the North to the South Side.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2019

His tales of the ghost- and history-haunted English countryside, reissued recently by Oxford University Press, rend the veil between everyday existence and a dark and chaotic netherworld.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

“Through here,” boomed Wednesday, and he led them through the only exit, formed to look like the gaping mouth of a huge monster, its sharp teeth ready to rend them all to slivers.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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

He takes hold of his mantle, and holds it so firmly that it rends.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

As a result, builders pulled back from starter homes and other dwellings typically used for entry-level homeownership and prioritized building units for rent.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

The rent on the studio was cheap — about $1,500 a month — and the leasing agent, he said, told him he’d probably pay only an additional $50 for utilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Even higher-income households, who in previous generations were able to save enough to buy a home, are choosing to rent today.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Secilli Keeler wants to stop spending money on rent and instead invest in a house that she owns.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Last time Mama took out a loan, she had to use bill money to pay it back and we almost got kicked out of our apartment for missing rent.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

To Polley, more heart rending was that it proved that such a conversation is possible to have, in a hayloft or anywhere else.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

It was not Mount St. Helens that blew, but a gash that appeared in the earth, rending the real world and allowing that monster-y dimension, the Upside Down, more entry.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2022

It was nice to see him, but always by the end of the dream he was gone, and in some horrible rending kind of way.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline