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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
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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
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
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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
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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