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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

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

“It takes little to rend the seams,” he said.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

It is among a host of companies in Asia that have established partnerships with the chip maker, promising to use its chips in data centers and rent that computing capacity to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Every summer we rent a big house at the Outer Banks for the whole family, which runs about $11,000.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

My mum never took advantage of Right to Buy; she continues to rent a council flat on a small estate in south London.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

One point of note: This research doesn’t reflect the returns an investor-buyer would have received if he or she used the extra money to buy a home and rent it out as a business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

It takes three hours to pack up everything we own, and that’s only because I spend an hour finding someone who will rent me a cart.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

But if the first go-rounds last year were tragedy—depressing stocks, spiking prices, and rending hearts in both countries—the latest skirmish is starting to look more like farce.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

At the time, police also arrested and charged Clemmons’ sister, his aunt, a cousin and his half-brother with a variety of crimes, including rending medical aid to the wounded Clemmons.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 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

Make that rending, not rendering, and it’s one solid word.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner


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