rename
verb
re·name
(ˌ)rē-ˈnām 
renamed; renaming
: to give (someone or something) a new name
renamed the street in honor of the late mayor
… a 16-year-old who left the Orthodox life a year ago. He has renamed himself Adam to cement the break …—
Ron Kampeas
Ron KampeasThe program was actually a relatively simple … script that renames files on your hard drive …—Michael J. Miller
Michael J. MillerExamples of rename in a Sentence
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But Micro-Soft, later renamed to drop the hyphen and relocated to its current headquarters in Redmond, Washington, would be the company that would transform personal computing over the next five decades.
—ArsTechnica, 4 Apr. 2025
This now rings insultingly hollow— in 2021 Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed that the company, soon renamed Meta, did in fact have the tools to effectively halt the spread of dangerous disinformation on everything from politics to medicine.
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
Real estate mogul Jorge Pérez has to date given or pledged more than $100 million to Miami’s public art museum, which in 2013 was renamed the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Apr. 2025
More than 200 public Confederate symbols across the country were removed, relocated or renamed within about a year and a half, according to research by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
—Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025
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ArsTechnica, 4 Apr. 2025
This now rings insultingly hollow— in 2021 Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed that the company, soon renamed Meta, did in fact have the tools to effectively halt the spread of dangerous disinformation on everything from politics to medicine.
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
Real estate mogul Jorge Pérez has to date given or pledged more than $100 million to Miami’s public art museum, which in 2013 was renamed the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Apr. 2025
More than 200 public Confederate symbols across the country were removed, relocated or renamed within about a year and a half, according to research by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
—Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Rename.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rename. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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