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Recent Examples of rename
The board of managers, during Tuesday’s school board meeting, suspended a board policy to rename Cesar Chavez Elementary School, located in the Diamond Hill neighborhood, to Esperanza Elementary School.
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
In the coming months, the company plans to rename itself NewBird AI and give up its status as a public benefit corporation.
—Suvrat Dhanorkar, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
The Minnesota House and Senate unanimously passed a bill on Monday to rename a portion of a highway in Ramsey County after Master Sergeant Nicole Amor.
—Aki Nace, CBS News, 12 May 2026
The bill would also rename a state program that reimburses ranchers who lose livestock to wolves, calling it the Wolf-Livestock Coexistence and Compensation Program.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
In the coming months, the company plans to rename itself NewBird AI and give up its status as a public benefit corporation.
—Suvrat Dhanorkar, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
The Minnesota House and Senate unanimously passed a bill on Monday to rename a portion of a highway in Ramsey County after Master Sergeant Nicole Amor.
—Aki Nace, CBS News, 12 May 2026
The bill would also rename a state program that reimburses ranchers who lose livestock to wolves, calling it the Wolf-Livestock Coexistence and Compensation Program.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
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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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North Cascades National Park, nicknamed the American Alps, is about as dramatic as contiguous U.S. scenery gets.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Apr. 2026
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Earl’s combat partner was nicknamed Tiger and it was passed along.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Allbirds, which plans to rechristen itself as NewBird AI, is not the first struggling company to try to get a another lease on life by seizing on the hot new thing.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
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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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“Rename.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rename. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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