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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
Purdy, rendered ineffective by a torn ligament in his right elbow on the opening drive against the Eagles in a disastrous NFC title game loss three seasons ago, completed all three passes for 74 yards and capped the drive with a 2-yard touchdown pass to Demarcus Robinson. Dan Gelston, Twin Cities, 12 Jan. 2026 Or why roads and other critical infrastructure projects now take untold years and insane amounts of money to complete, and by the time they are finally opened are already rendered all but obsolete? Lee Steinhauer, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026 Miller’s writing style is crystalline, and the setting is beautifully rendered. The Know, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026 Purdy, rendered ineffective by a torn ligament in his right elbow on the opening drive against the Eagles in a disastrous NFC title game loss three seasons ago, completed all three passes for 74 yards and capped the drive with a 2-yard touchdown pass to Demarcus Robinson. CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026 In the show, portraits of Black subjects, rendered in the artist’s signature of painting with his fingertips, are presented in a built-to-scale architectural re-creation of Boafo’s studio in Accra, Ghana. Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026 That chaos might be the point, of course, but not when it’s rendered with such little imagination or conviction. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026 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 Both are rendered tonally with a darker hue of their namesake color appearing on the collar, mudguard, outsole and branding, bringing more après appeal to the winter hiker. Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rendered
Adjective
  • Most major automakers won't jump on the new tech and abandon their tried and true production process for steering systems immediately.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Onesto, my tried and true Anytime someone asks me for a dinner rec in Milwaukee, Onesto is my tried and true.
    Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Jakrajutatip also relinquished her roles at the Miss Universe Organization.
    Theresa Braine, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Meanwhile, 81 animals have already been relinquished and are expected to become available for adoption through Sammie’s Friends at the Nevada County Animal Shelter once medically cleared.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • This article originally appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft and was reproduced with permission.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Whitman traces how this legal foundation evolved into a broader moral menace that became a durable template in Western capitalism that was repeatedly reproduced.
    Valerie L. Myers, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Greenberg later described the behind-the-scenes conflict in stark terms.
    Elizabeth Rosner, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
  • According to the person who described Tuesday's decisions to the AP, Quinn and Kingsbury met in the morning to talk about the future of the team's offense, which features quarterback Jayden Daniels.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • What Tomato Paste Actually Is Tomato paste is made by cooking tomatoes slowly for hours, removing seeds and skins, and reducing the pulp until thick and intensely concentrated.
    Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Dried eucalyptus may not be enough to keep mice away, so opt for eucalyptus oil, which will have a more concentrated aroma.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Their study suggests that slow, orderly streams of cool gas already inside the galaxy—or delivered by interactions with nearby galaxies—may be quietly feeding central black holes, allowing those black holes to gently shut down star formation without blowing the galaxy apart.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Have the latest Reality Checks delivered to your inbox with our free newsletter.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • By temporarily shielding inventors from having their designs and technologies copied, patents give firms a chance to generate profits during their limited time at the top of the ladder.
    David J. Kappos, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This, however, poses a major problem in other fields, as the data cannot be copied without corrupting it.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
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 13 Jan. 2026.

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