rename
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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On the same day, the president also signed an executive order to rename AI as "super intelligence", after previously saying the word artificial made the technology sound "fake".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison said he would rename his combined company Skydance after acquiring Warner Bros.
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
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
And he let her rename him with a shrug and a nod.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
His successor, Harry Truman, made it a permanent federal facility and then, after he took office in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower renamed it Camp David in honor of his young grandson.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 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
I saw little Mickey Gubitosi, a child actor, who was renamed Bobby Blake by MGM Studios.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Later, in 1911, it became the Computing-Tabulating- Recording Company, which in turn was renamed in 1924 as International Business Machines, or IBM.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
He revived the idea after buying Twitter and renaming it X in 2022, positioning it as a super-app that could handle communications and financial transactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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
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
In an explanation about renaming Lake Ontario on its maps, Google said it made the decision because the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
For an example of a trivial sense, suppose the defenders of Ptolemaic astronomy had responded to the threat posed by Copernicanism by simply renaming the sun ‘the earth’, and the earth ‘the sun’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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