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Recent Examples of rename
But Hegseth reversed those changes by again renaming the bases − this time for U.S. servicemembers whose surnames matched those of their earlier Confederate namesakes.
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Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 July 2025
The city has also renamed a portion of North Mt. Juliet Road as Barry Wilmore Way.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 18 July 2025
The Santa Ana Unified School District board voted unanimously recently to rename John C. Fremont Elementary School as Virginia and William Guzman Elementary School, after one of five families behind the 1947 federal court case Mendez v. Westminster.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 11 July 2025
The Falls, which has boasted a multiplex since the mall’s opening in 1980, will see its Regal movie house revamped, reopened and renamed the Regal Bistro at The Falls in late summer.
—Howard Cohen
july 11, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
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Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 July 2025
The city has also renamed a portion of North Mt. Juliet Road as Barry Wilmore Way.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 18 July 2025
The Santa Ana Unified School District board voted unanimously recently to rename John C. Fremont Elementary School as Virginia and William Guzman Elementary School, after one of five families behind the 1947 federal court case Mendez v. Westminster.
—Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 11 July 2025
The Falls, which has boasted a multiplex since the mall’s opening in 1980, will see its Regal movie house revamped, reopened and renamed the Regal Bistro at The Falls in late summer.
—Howard Cohen
july 11, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rename
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Once a new blacktop coating is in place, the counterfeiter relabels the parts by printing new text onto the blacktop coating, and the recycled parts are ready to sell.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Sep. 2013
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Shippers then relabel the country of origin before selling it on to independent refineries in China.—
Cecilia Hult,
Fortune,
25 June 2025
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Apparently, everything in the United States of America is operating at amazing and unprecedented levels of pure excellence, because the president has turned his attention to a topic that isn't quite vitally important for the enrichment and well-being of the nation's people: Sports team nicknames.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
21 July 2025
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Born in April 1990, Prince Al-Waleed — who was nicknamed Dede by his family — was injured in a car accident in 2005 while studying at a military college in London, per Gulf News and the Mirror.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
20 July 2025
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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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While the president this week decried efforts to rechristen U.S. military bases named for Confederate generals, the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday decided to add a bipartisan provision to the Pentagon's annual spending bill that would begin the process of renaming those installations.—
Ledyard King,
USA TODAY,
12 June 2020
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“Rename.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rename. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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