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rend

[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

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

Some — the ones that rend your very soul — you find a way to mend.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2020

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

The thought of her anguish rends my very heart cords!

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet

Brown was there to broker a deal to rent computing power after the explosive success of Anthropic’s Claude Code created a capacity crunch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Oh, and if you rent but you still want exposure to the real-estate market, you could always take that 20% down payment you were saving up and invest it in a bunch of residential REITs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then Urbagestión raised the rent to a level more in line with market prices, but Abascal couldn’t afford it on her €1,450 monthly pension.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Galindo says he concludes from the data available that there is not a notable accumulation of property to rent among a small number of owners in Spain.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

My dad’s trying to rent a car and Mom’s getting us all SIM cards for our phones.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

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

He heard the cataclysmic rending of stone and metal as the ground gave way.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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