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verb

past tense of render
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as in relinquished
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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Recent Examples of rendered
Verb
Majumdar’s characters’ choices would carry greater weight if the conditions constraining them were rendered with equal depth. Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025 However, the on-screen star rendered her bob era no more shortly after the film wrapped. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025 For centuries, the doctrine of coverture rendered married women the property of their husbands with no legal rights of their own. Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025 Lawrence takes up that challenge and then some, with a performance that could have been rendered in broad strokes, and sometimes is, but also relies on small moments, a look in her eyes, a quick movement, to draw us in and keep us there. Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025 When the bacon is almost cooked, pour off the liquid rendered fat into a separate container. Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025 Edwards rendered Portland’s stout defense moot. Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025 To do so, a company would have to recreate everything from how web pages are rendered and memory is managed, to encryption systems, sandboxing, video playback, and constant security patching. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025 The piece extracts a section of words from a 1935 essay by philosopher Walter Benjamin and deconstructs them into individual letters, which are then rendered in silver mylar balloons. Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rendered
Adjective
  • There is simply no reason to tolerate mass murder by terrorists when a tried and true pattern of limited intervention can stop it.
    Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Rodrik concedes that there is no tried and tested formula to achieve this.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Though Judge and Simon were legally granted equal custody of their three children upon their split, Judge relinquished custody of Sidney to Simon after their daughter opted to live with him full time.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Georgia Tech led 17-14 before the Wolfpack’s Cody Hardy scored his second touchdown of the first half, and NC State (5-4, 2-3) never relinquished the lead from there.
    Manny Navarro, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In an exchange reproduced on screen, a fan asked Stause about her rift with Hernan.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The platform, best described as part creative incubator and part distribution hub, is designed for the mobile attention economy without sacrificing substance or style.
    Partner Content, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In a phone call last spring, Kashunamiut School District Superintendent Jeanne Campbell described a host of problems related to the Chevak school's boiler and broken water pipes that impacted the fire sprinkler system.
    Emily Schwing, NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • One pump really does go a long way, thanks to its concentrated formula.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Luria and Kerrisdale both cite CoreWeave’s highly concentrated customer base as another potential peril—a reality that CoreWeave itself acknowledged in its last earnings report.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Muncy delivered the first of three clutch home runs that led the Dodgers into baseball immortality.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • When examining the evolution of armoured warfare, the tanks that truly changed modern warfare are those that delivered a decisive technological leap, influenced future tank design, and impacted battlefield outcomes.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • But tension from within the sheriff’s office boiled over and reached the public in November 2024, when then-Chief Deputy Kevin Canty resigned, sent McFadden a harsh resignation letter and copied the entire sheriff’s office to the email.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • State after state copied California’s Alien Land Law.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The first adaptation of author Mary Shelley's classic 1818 novel came in 1931, when Boris Karloff portrayed the monster in Frankenstein.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
  • On the big screen, Harford cared for Sandra Dee’s Rosalie Stocker in The Wild and the Innocent (1959) and portrayed the opportunistic older sister of Natalie Wood’s unstable title character in Inside Daisy Clover (1965), the melodrama directed by Robert Mulligan.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2025

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“Rendered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rendered. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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