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rend

[rend] / rɛnd /




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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

Some people have wondered if his departure in early 2016 didn’t somehow rend the fabric of space-time and send us hurtling into a dimension of alternate outcomes.

From Washington Post Apr. 29, 2021

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

“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

My life, my friend, is made of a fine and thin stuff, that grief rends cruelly; if I had anything to reproach myself with, I should long have ceased to exist.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

If you don't have your own garden, many councils offer allotments where you can rent a plot for a relatively small annual fee.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

A well-known institution in Kyiv, the market moved to a permanent building in the early 2010s, where vendors rent small spaces or containers.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

Students “already use PayPal and Venmo for rent, for splitting a bill and for paying friends and family back,” said Frank Keller, president of Checkout Solutions and PayPal.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Indeed, condominium prices have been cooling in L.A. , but people continue to prefer to rent.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

She continues checking out my books while she tells the person on the phone about how to rent a movie from the library online.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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

In that trio of songs, Spyres the Bel Canto star was most in his element: his tenor both riveting and rending, his high notes both tossed off and made to bloom with long crescendos.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2022

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

From Washington Post Jun. 24, 2022

At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.

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




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