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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
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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
“Most people do when the lady Eleanor turns and rends them,” returned Jean, with a reminiscent smile.
From Betty Wales Freshman by Dunton, Edith K.
The median rent for apartments with three or more bedrooms is $5,495 citywide, according to StreetEasy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
There were whistles, Signal chats, legal observers, carpools, rent funds, and grocery deliveries.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
But she said the choice of places to rent still dropped sharply on property portals when pets were part of the equation.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
A tumultuous year marred by wildfires, tariffs, immigration raids, increasing rent and labor costs saw some of the city’s most famous restaurants closing, from Michelin-starred fine dining to cozy mom-and-pop spots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The apartment’s entrance was marred by a rusty fire escape running up the front, and there was only one small bedroom—but the rent was $45 a month.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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And so a proper rending of garments was had.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 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
She holds the sum of these feelings in her anxious darting glances along with a rending sadness, making us understand why a girl like that would find comfort in Bush's best-known anthem.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
But at her best, she sings with lustrous delicacy — soaring in Nadia Boulanger’s “Prière” and rending in Clarke’s “Down by the Salley Gardens” — and operatic urgency.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
Make that rending, not rendering, and it’s one solid word.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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