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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

“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

Thus she says: "Lo, Love once more, the limb-dissolving king, The bitter-sweet, impracticable thing, Wild-beast-like rends me with fierce quivering."

From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll

Then he did what he had been doing all day: He started talking about health care, rent, groceries, schools, roads.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The rent for Lara's room was £1,022 per month, more than £200 higher than her monthly student maintenance loan.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

For many immigrants who did not speak English, a Spanish-language newspaper was a lifeline to figure out what was going on as well as to find a job, rent an apartment and buy a car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

But so far — between rent, student loans, utility bills, groceries and saving for emergencies — she and her partner haven’t been able to put enough money away for a down payment.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Da, who was far away, fishing to pay the rent.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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

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

A rending, splintering sound made them all look back at the house.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman