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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
“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
Alas! my princely lord, 'tis you— Your absence, that my bosom rends.
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius
Her lot rent has nearly doubled since moving in, even accounting for inflation.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
English councils built just 1,970 homes to rent in 2025, external, down from a construction rate of almost 200,000 a year in the 1950s.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Aragon, who works in audio for a production house, said he recently moved to neighboring Bedford-Stuyvesant from Manhattan to save on rent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
A bad credit score hurts your ability to take out a loan, rent housing and even qualify for certain jobs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
She immediately instructed his sister, Joan, to send the entire amount of her monthly Social Security check to Bobby to assist him with his rent.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
And so a proper rending of garments was had.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024
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
At least, I think that horrid screaming, silent sobbing and rending of garments indicates confusion.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
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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