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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

His tales of the ghost- and history-haunted English countryside, reissued recently by Oxford University Press, rend the veil between everyday existence and a dark and chaotic netherworld.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

The loss of insects and arthropods could further rend the rain forest’s food web, Lister warned, causing plant species to go extinct without pollinators.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2018

Then the Black Captain rose in his stirrups and cried aloud in a dreadful voice, speaking in some forgotten tongue words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Now and then kindly chance rends the base earth that covers it and shows us a hero or a heroine.

From The Land of Long Ago by Eliza Calvert Hall

She was forced to leave the Madrid flat where she had lived after it was acquired by an investment company that sought to increase her rent by 275 percent, according to housing campaigners.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Abascal was evicted after she was unable to pay a sharp rent increase introduced by Urbagestión, the company that owned her flat in central Madrid.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

He needs the money to help take care of a sick family member, save for his first home and cover rent and student loan repayments.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

She helped pass a new cap on rent hikes in apartments built before October 1978.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Okay, Paris, I’d like to make a business arrangement with you. I’d like to rent this building for the next month. I’ll pay a generous rate.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

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

In the distance, I could hear the sound of rending metal as several trailer stacks began to collapse, ripping free of their scaffolding and crashing against one another like massive dominoes.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline