lease
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“You lease a place, you expect everything to be functioning, including the elevator,” Walden says.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
"The transaction signals a new lease of life for a business that was bloated with debt and struggled with low growth," said AJ Bell head of markets Dan Coatsworth.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
The company netted about $30 billion from debt sales, bringing long-term debt to $77.5 billion, in addition to another $13 billion in lease liabilities.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
Under the leasehold system, people own the right to occupy a property via a lease for a limited number of years from a freeholder.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 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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Vocabulary lists containing lease
Sonnet 18
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