rename
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Some top tech leaders have already started to use the new name, including multi-billionaire Elon Musk, who said on social media on Sunday that he will rename his firm's AI platform SpaceXAI as SpaceXSI.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
Beatty was prompted to take on the Kennedy Center fight after she said the host muted her when she tried to object during the board’s first vote to rename the center in December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
Once he became praetor, he’d campaigned to rename the legion the First Legion rather than the Twelfth Legion, to symbolize a new start for Rome.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The character has since been renamed to Shazam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
But it was renamed by the International Olympic Committee in 2014 to acknowledge the broader range of symptoms of energy deficiency and that it also harms male athletes.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 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
Five days after Lenin’s death, Petrograd, the former capital of Russia, was renamed Leningrad in his honor.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
The charity founder said the renaming of the condition, which supporters said was "more representative" of how it affected the whole body, could help improve understanding, but there was still a "long way to go".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The Stanford University coders behind the search engine, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had initially called their project Backrub before renaming it Google—a play on googol, meaning one followed by 100 zeros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
To him, the renaming is "absurd" and "extremely dangerous."
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
“That was for renaming me,” said the pigeon too smugly.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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