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rendition
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rendition as in:  her rendition of the song

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  • The jazz quartet's rendition of "Autumn Leaves" transformed the familiar standard into something hauntingly new.
  • Their voices were full of song, culminating in a roaring rendition of "Deutschland über Alles."  (source)
    rendition = performance
  • They could've broken out into a gangsta rendition of "Kumbaya" and I wouldn't be any more shocked than I am. "How did you get all of them in here and keep the house in one piece?" Momma asks.  (source)
    rendition = performance that interprets a work of art in a particular way
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  • Miss Smith highlighted the event with a rendition of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."†  (source)
  • It took three more underwater renditions of the egg's song before Harry had it memorized; then he trod water for a while, thinking hard, while Myrtle sat and watched him.†  (source)
  • The laughing man broke into song, a slurring, off-key rendition of an old Afghan wedding song, delivered with a thick Russian accent:†  (source)
  • The results were shaky yet recognizable renditions of what she once had done perfectly.†  (source)
  • Chickie was in the colored band and made a splash in the New Year's talent show with a jazzy version of "Greensleeves," if he recalled, a rendition that verged on bebop.†  (source)
  • If Rudy wasn't talking about Deutscher's intense ways, he was playing his usual broken record, providing renditions and re-creations of the last goal he scored in the Himmel Street soccer stadium.  (source)
    renditions = his descriptions
  • A military surgeon would have admired the clinical fidelity of the artist's rendition of all Christ's wounds-the spear wound, the thorn wounds, the holes that were made by the iron spikes.†  (source)
  • On this long strip of paper, Hiro glimpses multiple renditions of the important Crip, the guy with the goatee whom Raven was dealing with earlier.†  (source)
  • About five minutes later she came back, just in time to cut short Jack's rendition of "Hands to Myself."†  (source)
  • Each looked like the other, each was filled to the center, or almost to the center, with a dense pattern of concentric circles; and yet this delicate tracery contained more sound than one could imagine, exquisite renditions of the happiest inspirations from every domain of the art of music.†  (source)
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rendition as in:  rendition to the country

The government faced criticism over its rendition of suspected terrorists to other countries for harsher interrogation.
rendition = extradition (handing a person to another authority)