tenanted

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Chris Jowsey, boss of Admiral Taverns which has 1,600 pubs agreed, and said his tenanted pubs now pay more in energy bills than they do in rent.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2022

They are mainly tenanted by mining giants BHP and the Rio Tinto group.

From Nature • Oct. 16, 2018

You get the titanic limestone façades of the early twentieth century and the vast impenetrable steel-curtain façades of the mid-century, all of them uncertainly tenanted.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2016

Britain’s 50,000 pubs fall into three categories: those owned and managed by companies; so-called tied or tenanted pubs leased by individuals who pay rent to the pub’s corporate owners; and independently owned establishments.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 10, 2014

A stranger with a flair for cocktail-party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger