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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
Some — the ones that rend your very soul — you find a way to mend.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2020
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
“It takes little to rend the seams,” he said.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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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
We often hear quoted, as the most terrible of sounds, the roar of the lion, as he rends the silence of approaching night in the immensity of the desert.
From The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian by Ralph Browning Fiske
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
Hours before the board voted to go into administration, Scentre - which owns Westfield - said the retailer had not paid its rent for October and was "therefore in breach" of its tenancy agreement.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 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
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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
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
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
The trees, swung by strong arms, smote the timbers with a rending boom.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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