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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

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

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

“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

Jeremiah is the prophet of a dying nation; the agony of Judah's prolonged death struggle is reproduced with ten-fold intensity in the inward conflict which rends the heart of the prophet.

From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein

For Tock, whose rent consumes almost an entire biweekly paycheck, “the idea of homeownership is anywhere from ‘so far out’ to ‘I have given up,’” which fuels his activism as a long-term renter.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The ladder leads to a grueling work schedule and a work title that doesn’t cover rent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The group tried to push the state legislature to adopt bills aimed at stopping steep rent increases and protecting tenants’ rights to organize.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Many ordinary Spaniards say they have not felt the benefits of the country's economic growth, with inflation outpacing wage growth and rent taking up an increasing share of household incomes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Leah owned nice furniture and lovely clothes, but was somehow a month behind on the rent.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

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

At least, I think that horrid screaming, silent sobbing and rending of garments indicates confusion.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

Make that rending, not rendering, and it’s one solid word.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner