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Recent Examples of rename
In 2020, nearly 1,000 supporters signed a petition calling for Davidson to rename the Chambers building, located in the center of campus.
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Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
Southeastern Grocers, which owns Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie chains in the South, will rename the company to The Winn-Dixie Company and shed its stores outside of Florida and Georgia.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
This is not the first attempt to rename White Settlement Road.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, state lawmakers in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Illinois moved to establish state holidays in Kirk’s honor, while proposals in Arizona and Florida would rename highways after him.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
Southeastern Grocers, which owns Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie chains in the South, will rename the company to The Winn-Dixie Company and shed its stores outside of Florida and Georgia.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
This is not the first attempt to rename White Settlement Road.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, state lawmakers in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Illinois moved to establish state holidays in Kirk’s honor, while proposals in Arizona and Florida would rename highways after him.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rename
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Scammers often relabel old or scrap batteries built by legitimate manufacturers like LG, Panasonic, or Samsung and sell them as new.—
Andrew Moseman,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Nov. 2025
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Texas has been known to relabel its drugs’ beyond-use dates, a practice that has been criticized in recent years by death row inmates who have alleged in court that the drugs are expired and unsafe.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
14 Oct. 2025
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In the 2000s, this tendency led his staff to nickname him Rain Man.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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In eighteenth-century England, Lee belonged to a sect nicknamed the Shaking Quakers, who expressed their faith through ecstatic singing and dancing.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Another is that the company actually may want to completely rechristen itself in hopes of leaving past problems behind and rebooting its corporate image.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Oct. 2021
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Team Tennis would later adopt the name of its predecessor and rechristen itself World Team Tennis.—
Richard Sandomir,
New York Times,
16 July 2021
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“Rename.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rename. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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