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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
Some — the ones that rend your very soul — you find a way to mend.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2020
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
“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
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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
But yet—tho' Time some foliage rends, The stem, the Friendship, still is ours; And long may it endure, as green And fresh as it hath always been!
From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various
Meanwhile, in markets where the cost to buy is lower or closer to the cost to rent, generally in the Midwest and South, buyers break even much faster.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Nvidia also recently signed deals with two young cloud-computing companies in Australia where it acts as a customer of last resort if they can’t find others to rent their computing power to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"It's cost me £32,000 to repair the damage done, and I'm owed another £12,000 in rent," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Consumer-price inflation primarily concerns services like rent and insurance, not imports.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 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
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But if the first go-rounds last year were tragedy—depressing stocks, spiking prices, and rending hearts in both countries—the latest skirmish is starting to look more like farce.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
Hear how, alongside precision, the purity of sound — in the strings, and in Lucile Richardot’s robust yet smooth tone — maintains rending beauty and a softly dancing lilt.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 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
I heard a piercing shriek that sounded like rending metal.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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