rename
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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In May, a federal judge said that only Congress could rename the center and temporarily blocked Trump’s plan to close it for a $257 million renovation.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Nashville regulators voted to rename the local airport in honor of Dolly Parton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
MapQuest decided not to rename the lake, stating in a viral social media post that it is “aware that Lake Ontario is being correctly labeled on our map.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Mexico has rejected the name change, arguing a single country cannot rename a shared body of international water.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The professors rename the papers, so Lisa Smith gets back a dozen attachments named “smith.doc.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The main airport in Nashville, Tennessee, the home of country music, is to be renamed after one of its brightest stars, the late Dolly Parton who died last month.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
He launched his own publication, Rock & Roll Confidential, which was later renamed Rock & Rap Confidential.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
A statue of Catherine was removed from a central Odesa square after a council vote in 2022, and streets have been renamed to commemorate some Ukrainian writers and activists.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The operator was renamed in 2024 following the consolidation of healthcare assets across Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They had all renamed themselves, the article said, adding that it was a right belonging to every American citizen.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
People are smashing Flock cameras on the street, renaming the A.I.-powered Meta Ray-Bans as “pervert glasses,” and starting widespread rumors about who is secretly using your data to train their A.I. models.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
His post of the map did not include a caption and preceded a flurry of posts of maps renaming the US state of New Mexico as "New America".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Both the closure and the renaming were halted in a May ruling by Federal District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper who is still overseeing the legal back-and-forth over the center’s fate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Capitalizing on Mantell’s enfeebled state, Owen set about systematically expunging Mantell’s contributions from the record, renaming species that Mantell had named years before and claiming credit for their discovery for himself.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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