rename
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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But five years on, the much-mocked decision to rename the multibillion-dollar company after a technology that has never lived up to its promise might actually have been the right decision—albeit made for the wrong reason.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
Discovery, he plans to rename the combined entity Skydance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
She grew quiet, then added, “My father said they're going to rename the Giant's Bridge. I told him they should name it after you.”
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
It has since renamed itself in some places as "Male Legion".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Lufthansa Technik, which renamed BizJet as Lufthansa Technik Engine Services in 2024, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
He joked it should be renamed after him and spent considerable time discussing Washington, D.C. construction projects and resurrecting conspiracy theories about monument vandals.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
The character has since been renamed to Shazam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Though Gogol doesn’t know it, even Nikolai Gogol renamed himself, simplifying his surname at the age of twenty-two from Gogol-Yanovsky to Gogol upon publication in the Literary Gazette.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
However, when asked for his thoughts on the new name, Canada's minister of AI Evan Solomon said: "Canadians are not enthusiastic, at all, about renaming things," in an apparent reference to Trump renaming Lake Ontario.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
She believes it should be marked with additional signage so that people know it’s there, rather than renaming a World War I memorial in addition to the space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
To him, the renaming is "absurd" and "extremely dangerous."
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 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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