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as in to relinquish
to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress
a gentleman bandit who graciously asked his victims to render their wallets to his safe possession
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2
as in to reproduce
to make an exact likeness of
rendered Thomas Jefferson's signature for use on an array of gift items
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as in to describe
to give a representation or account of in words
the witness convincingly rendered her version of events in just a few words
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Recent Examples of render
For centuries figurative sculptors have found ways to render their subjects in motion.
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Dawn Chan, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
The tech can also render some impressive imagery of distant galaxies that would otherwise be invisible to the human eye.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Officers rendered aid to the victim until medics arrived.
—Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
Officers arrived to find three vehicles involved — each with a single driver — and began rendering aid alongside firefighters and paramedics, per the release.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Dawn Chan, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
The tech can also render some impressive imagery of distant galaxies that would otherwise be invisible to the human eye.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Officers rendered aid to the victim until medics arrived.
—Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
Officers arrived to find three vehicles involved — each with a single driver — and began rendering aid alongside firefighters and paramedics, per the release.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for render
Verb
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The Royals took a 7-6 lead and never relinquished it.—
Jaylon Thompson
May 2,
Kansas City Star,
2 May 2026
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The team will relinquish its district title and conduct a full audit of its athletic eligibility process.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 May 2026
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The organism not only became active again but was also able to reproduce asexually, suggesting that its cellular structures remained intact despite the passage of millennia.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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After his death in 1993, the hippos escaped and began reproducing in the wild.—
Carlie Procell,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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Drinking that water can cause both acute illness (like the abdominal pain that Stillman describes) and chronic illness.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Most of the monarchies in Europe are really described by their greatest and most ardent supporters.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
3 May 2026
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The truck was en route to deliver bread to the airport when it was grazed by the plane.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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At the building’s peak, five-foot-tall concrete letters spell out a hundred and three words of a speech delivered by Obama in Selma, Alabama, in 2015, on the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when John Lewis and other civil-rights activists were beaten at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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At every turn, OpenAI has appeared eager to copy the success of its rival.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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Not to be redistributed, copied, or modified in any way.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
28 Apr. 2026
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The film stars renegade country singer Elizabeth Cook as a fictionalized version of herself, portraying an artist navigating midlife while contending with an industry that has never fully embraced her.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2026
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However, director Antoine Fuqua made the conscious decision to use CGI to portray the chimpanzee.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
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After the Chiricahua Apache surrendered in 1886, the land became home to a family of Swedish immigrant settlers, the Ericksons.—
Staff Author,
Travel + Leisure,
1 May 2026
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The use of the term caused alarm as international humanitarian law explicitly forbids armed forces from denying enemy combatants to surrender and instead killing them.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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Study after study show that AI replicates the biases of the data it’s trained on.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
3 May 2026
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Kate Hudson’s red carpet glam is subtle and affordable enough to replicate in real life.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
3 May 2026
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“Render.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/render. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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