rename
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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"We had to remove all our URLs which had pregnancy in them and rename them all."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Last week, the county Board of Supervisors voted to rename a section of Avenue Q in Palmdale in honor of the slain deputy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Bobbi Brown said Jones Road Beauty will rename its Wide Awake Brightening Concealer after Molly Sims pointed out that she has been selling Wide Awake Concealer for two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
Janie was always trying to get Mom to rename her veterinary clinic something else.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
As for Wunderle, Kimmerle says, the business wound down in the 1980s, while Goelitz was eventually renamed Jelly Belly in 2001, and acquired by Ferrara Candy in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
He ultimately bought Twitter and renamed it X.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Palm Beach international airport was renamed after the city's most famous resident earlier this year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
President Trump called for the technology to be renamed during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 11 September.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
In mid-1994, Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics, had joined forces with Andreessen to found Mosaic, which would quickly be renamed Netscape Communications.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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
To him, the renaming is "absurd" and "extremely dangerous."
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Finally, here’s a petition we can all get behind: renaming the Nashville airport to Dolly Parton International Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
This is definitely a thing in my city: honoring somebody by renaming a street after them.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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