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lease

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


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Meta initially agreed to lease Hyperion for a four-year term starting in 2029, with options to renew for up to 20 years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

"OpenAI will pay the lease," Nvidia wrote in a blog post on Monday, and continued that the deal was made with "the same discipline we apply to supply-chain management."

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

Its lease payments will provide the cash flows to help make the payments to bondholders.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

A separate child-care program that is not run by UCLA, called University Parents Nursery School, will also close after the university ends its lease in 2027.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

The company insisted that it wasn’t in the mining business, and thus did not need a lease from the Osage.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

One big reason Arya isn’t sweating Nvidia’s decision to guarantee OpenAI’s leases lies in the details of the SEC filing.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Those obligations are growing faster than traditional “capex,” which totaled about $600 billion over the past year they reported, and were about triple what the companies owe under their outstanding leases and long-term borrowings.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

German energy giant RWE said it will abandon wind leases off the coast of New York, Louisiana and Northern California near Humboldt, further challenging the Golden State’s clean energy ambitions.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Santa Clarita Studios President Mike DeLorenzo said that this fall, the studio will let go of leases on three of its 35-plus soundstages.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Most of the records were dry and clinical—expenses, census reports, oil leases.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

The helicopters were leased from Australia's McDermott Aviation as part of a fleet of 15 aircraft.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

Right after Aimee left Bannon’s, my parents leased space at a gym called AIM, which stands for Athletes in Motion.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

“In the worst-case scenario they destroy capital,” he said, while in the best case, the neoclouds will be “cyclical leasing companies.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

The neoclouds are destined to be “cyclical leasing companies,” according to BCA analyst Noah Weisberger, which implies low valuations for the stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Anthropic is now leasing the entire facility for more than $1 billion a month.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Power showed that 96% of polled EV owners say they would consider purchasing or leasing another—but that outcome is contingent on having options in the EV market.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

The tribe soon began leasing areas to more and more white prospectors for exploration.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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