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lease

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


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Rettig, 32, found the benefits of convent-living obvious: safety, community, no year-long lease.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

A takeover by Vodafone would replace TalkTalk’s very fragile balance sheet with Vodafone’s solid one and reduce the risk of non-payment of lease fees to Openreach, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

A month away from its closure, onetime gambling oasis Primm, Nev., located along the state border with Southern California, has a new lease on life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The data-center developer announced an unnamed large cloud provider signed a 15-year lease at a new artificial-intelligence campus.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

William Burns had once investigated Comstock for allegedly assisting an oil company in a scheme to bribe the Osage Tribal Council for a favorable lease, but the charge was never proven.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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