lease
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The Bloomberg article suggested SpaceX was looking to lease or acquire 80,000 cell sites across the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
From fashion and food to dating and homemaking, they are finding new audiences and, in some cases, a new lease of life.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Shares of real estate investment trusts that lease data centers to hyperscalers like Meta and Amazon were falling Thursday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Including its more than $160 billion obligation to lease Google chips in a deal with Broadcom, Anthropic’s future infrastructure costs top $600 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
It was her apartment, her name on the lease for the first time since she had been a young teacher.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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BMW usually leases official cars for use by top members of the state parliament, including the speaker.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
It also strengthens state oversight of existing leases by requiring additional scrutiny and waiting periods for renewals, extensions or changes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Companies are structuring chip and electricity purchases as future leases rather than owned assets, so the liabilities don’t show up on the balance sheet.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
BF Hicks, a local lawyer whose family has owned land in the county since the 1800s, says he watched neighbours sign 30-year leases with solar companies and bulldozers clear centuries-old oak trees near his property.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The oilmen anxiously pored over geological maps and tried to glean intelligence about leases from men they employed as “rock hounds” and spies.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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It reports that persistently high fuel prices are forcing carriers to cut flights, axe costs and delay payments on leased aircraft.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
They have also poured money into property development, building homes and commercial spaces on council-owned land leased under favourable terms.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Those using leased carriers or independent trucks, which add their own fuel surcharges, are trying to get as close to a truckload as they can or limit smaller orders, she added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Four months after production services vendor Quixote said it would close much of its L.A. soundstage business, producer Manny Halley has leased one of its Pacoima facilities and plans to reopen it this fall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
His father’s leased car, described to him by his mother on the telephone last night, is still parked in the visitors’ parking lot.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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CoreWeave has utilized a strategy of borrowing money to outfit data centers with the necessary hardware to run AI workloads, and then leasing out the cloud access to customers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Wall Street had been speculating whether Meta would begin leasing out its data-center capacity as a way of monetizing its AI infrastructure in a highly profitable manner.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
The director would be able to manage public works projects, including construction, buying or leasing property, exercising eminent domain with City Council approval, granting street permits, regulating parking and recommending budgets for the department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The leasing agents didn’t respond to my requests for comment.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
She waited until she received a check for several hundred dollars from the company that was leasing the drilling rights.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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