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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
“Delicate Adonis is dying, Cytherea, what shall we do? Beat your breasts, maidens, and rend your tunics.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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
It disturbs and rends it as if it were one of its playthings.
From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Median rent for a two-bedroom home was about $1,893 nationwide in July, not including utilities or insurance, and for a buyer today, the typical monthly mortgage payment, at current interest rates, was $2,641.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
An early store cost $950 to open: $740 for a secondhand ice-cream machine, $120 for rent and $90 for electrical wiring and decor, Zhang Hongfu wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
They had their first dance on a second private island nearby that can rent for around $100,000 a night, paid for by Kremlev.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Bristol is England's least affordable city to rent in - should more be done?
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
As if the blight was our fault and we wanted the crops to rot in the fields and had planned all along not to pay the rent to the lord of our cottage.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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
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
Angry growls and the rending of grass from beneath the net on the ground heralded Constance’s awakening.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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