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Example sentences for: renaming

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In 1453, they took Constantinople, and immediately made it their capital, renaming it Istanbul.
It eliminates loopholes that previously allowed gun manufacturers to evade restrictions by renaming or slightly altering their weapons.
But the city board eventually compromised, renaming just the few blocks of Markham Street around the library after the president--a plan the mayor said he came to embrace after asking himself, "What would Jesus do?"
One would expect that a certain amount of common sense be exercised: Palm Drive and Bougainvillea Boulevard would be as out of place in Massachusetts as Yucca Lane; with the devastation wrought by Dutch elm disease, one might consider renaming all the streets in America named Elm Street to describe a hardier species.
Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.