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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
“Through here,” boomed Wednesday, and he led them through the only exit, formed to look like the gaping mouth of a huge monster, its sharp teeth ready to rend them all to slivers.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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
“Most people do when the lady Eleanor turns and rends them,” returned Jean, with a reminiscent smile.
From Betty Wales Freshman by Dunton, Edith K.
The cost of rent or a mortgage, household bills and subscriptions can't be shared.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
I’m 27 years old, originally from South Carolina, and currently splitting the rent on an overpriced apartment in New York City with my fiancé.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Venezuelan lawmakers on Friday unanimously approved a law that makes it easier to rent properties.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Customers including AI labs and large corporations have clamored to rent access to chips and computing equipment from them—to such an extent that their ability to supply it is more of a limitation than demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
They owed rent, owed it for a long time.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
And so a proper rending of garments was had.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024
But where successful, Tcherniakov’s approach is thoughtful, if rending.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
At least, I think that horrid screaming, silent sobbing and rending of garments indicates confusion.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
She holds the sum of these feelings in her anxious darting glances along with a rending sadness, making us understand why a girl like that would find comfort in Bush's best-known anthem.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
Instantly his followers scrambled into the bushes as their Chief ripped the tapestry into shreds, his mighty claws rending and tearing as he roared madly: “It’s a fake, a copy, worthless trash. Aaaaaarrgh!”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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