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lease

[lees] / lis /
VERB
rent object, residence
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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That year, the park service moved to shut down a local oyster farm, whose lease was expiring.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

AI firm Anthropic signed a 20-year lease with Riot Platforms for a data center in Rockdale, Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Fermi announces a $6.5 billion lease contract with AI cloud provider TensorWave.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

After announcing its permanent closure at the end of July, Crustacean in Beverly Hills has secured a lease extension that will allow the restaurant to keep serving diners through Oct.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

“The lease has more than a year to run,” Adam said.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

AI labs including OpenAI and Anthropic have signed leases for more than 10 gigawatts of behind-the-meter power.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

For the most recent quarter, Microsoft spent $41 billion on capital expenditures and finance leases, a lower amount than expected.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

According to the authority, a Home Office contractor, Serco, is taking on leases in the area on the open market to accommodate asylum seekers.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

The German telecommunications company raised its full-year free cash flow after leases guidance and its share buyback plan by up to 3 billion euros.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Private companies would be granted leases to extract minerals and harvest timber, but they would be required to do so in a restrained, intelligent, sustainable way.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The mine in Panna's Sarokha village was leased for a meagre sum by Akhilesh Pal and six others two years back, Press Trust of India reported.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Investors demanded yields of almost 10% on a $3.5 billion junk-bond sale last month from Galaxy Digital to build a Texas data center leased to CoreWeave.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

And a court heard when Sodexo took over, and when staff in the safer custody team arrived, they found some computers in their office had been taken, as they were leased by Serco.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Reifenberg has leased space for an additional branch of his Scum & Villany bar and restaurant on Palm Avenue under the AMC Burbank 30, the busiest theater complex in AMC’s chain.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

She is a pale, round moth, dusted with eggshell foundation, armed for the day with her banker’s briefcase, purse and remote starter for the leased SUV.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

I can see benefits of leasing, though—you don’t need to worry about repairs after the warranty runs out.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

A new leasing program for last year’s iPhone 17 implies prices for those devices won’t be reduced when the successor models are released, unlike in years past.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

This week the company also launched Apple Upgrade, a leasing program that lets US customers pay for an iPhone or other devices in monthly installments.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Eligibility is open to all Californians buying or leasing their first EV — this is confirmed through a buyer’s attestation.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Even as convict leasing faded away, strategic forms of exploitation and repression emerged anew.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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