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Kellogg renamed itself to Kellanova, which now houses snack brands such as Pringles and Cheez-It.
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Jacob Pramuk, CNBC, 9 July 2025
More: Officials rename 28 places in Wisconsin that had names derogatory to Indigenous women.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 9 July 2025
The city renamed Northeast Eighth Street in honor of Bush during the early 1990s.
— Ronald Reagan Turnpike: The state Legislature designated Florida’s Turnpike the Ronald Reagan Turnpike in 1998.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
In 2010, Topps renamed the release to what modern collectors know today as Topps Update Series.
—Tyler Holzhammer, New York Times, 7 July 2025
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Jacob Pramuk, CNBC, 9 July 2025
More: Officials rename 28 places in Wisconsin that had names derogatory to Indigenous women.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 9 July 2025
The city renamed Northeast Eighth Street in honor of Bush during the early 1990s.
— Ronald Reagan Turnpike: The state Legislature designated Florida’s Turnpike the Ronald Reagan Turnpike in 1998.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
In 2010, Topps renamed the release to what modern collectors know today as Topps Update Series.
—Tyler Holzhammer, New York Times, 7 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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At Euro 2022, the players nicknamed him ‘Van Gerwen’ — after the Dutch darts player, a three-time PDC world champion, such was his love of the game.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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Olivia, nicknamed Liv, was also having up to 12 loose stools a day.—
Jordan Greene,
People.com,
8 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 19 Jul. 2025.
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