as in to give
to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned
I can lend you my copy of the textbook until the weekend can you lend me five dollars?
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Recent Examples of lend
Pablo Santiago’s lighting and Aaron Rhyne’s projections lend the production a dreamlike fluidity, ideal for a play that emanates as much from Salieri’s memory as from his unconscious.
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Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
These movies have the extraordinary merit of putting the passions of love and the obstacles to relationships front and center, balancing personal desires and social obligations on an equal footing, and thereby lending bourgeois life the grandeur of tragedy.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
No coding experience is required, and Keiser noted that projects can combine design, business and technical skills, areas that lend themselves to folks outside the computer programming community.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
Jordan was very present in the garage area before the race and hung out with Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua and former NFL star Marshawn Lynch, which certainly lends credibility to other athletes.
—Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
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Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
These movies have the extraordinary merit of putting the passions of love and the obstacles to relationships front and center, balancing personal desires and social obligations on an equal footing, and thereby lending bourgeois life the grandeur of tragedy.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
No coding experience is required, and Keiser noted that projects can combine design, business and technical skills, areas that lend themselves to folks outside the computer programming community.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
Jordan was very present in the garage area before the race and hung out with Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua and former NFL star Marshawn Lynch, which certainly lends credibility to other athletes.
—Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
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The 31-year-old right-hander is being given an opportunity to make the starting rotation, one of a group of what is likely five pitchers vying for what is almost certainly one available spot at the start of the season.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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And there are likely more revelations and resignations to come, given the millions of documents spanning many years in the files released.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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Ten years after Blakely loaned her dress to Dawn, the two finally met again.—
David Begnaud,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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The gloves weren’t the first piece of equipment Street loaned to Vonn.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Lend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lend. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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