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Recent Examples of rename
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.
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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
Mansfield also noted there is community support to rename another road after Kirk in the county.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
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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
Mansfield also noted there is community support to rename another road after Kirk in the county.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rename
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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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Willis also said the FDA's efforts to relabel leucovorin is premature.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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In addition, there is the servant Smerdyakov, presumed to be the illegitimate child of Fyodor and the intellectually disabled Lizaveta, nicknamed Stinking Lizaveta.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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In Florida, which has more departments with 287(g) agreements than any other state, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent $245 million to set up a temporary detention center nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz.—
Rafael Carranza,
ProPublica,
21 Oct. 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 8 Nov. 2025.
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