- plural of tenant.
tenants
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Mr. Specht writes that when the sons “tried to settle these long-standing debts, their tenants, struggling with exhausted soils and poorly paying crops, began to resist in earnest.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Stephen Van Rensselaer III had been a generous landlord who “offered prospective tenants a 160-acre plot for nothing up front, and they did not even have to pay rent for the first seven years.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Making matters worse for tenants, getting A/C is often no simple matter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
She said she'd seen landlords who decided to sell their property because of the amount of tax but tenants couldn't afford to buy the homes.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The tenants of Sunset Towers awoke from clue-chasing, blood-dripping dreams, bound in twisted sheets and imprisoned by fifteen-foot snowdrifts.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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