lease
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By April, owner Erik Cheah wasn’t sure if he’d be able to re-sign his lease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
That year, the park service moved to shut down a local oyster farm, whose lease was expiring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
OpenAI is still in discussions to sign a binding lease for 10 gigawatts of the project in the coming days, according to two people familiar with the project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Any new owner could have leverage of his own: Once the Angel Stadium lease expires, the owner would be free to move out of Anaheim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
She and my dad ended up signing a one-year lease for two warehouse bays that made up a total of 9,000 square feet.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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Santa Clarita Studios President Mike DeLorenzo said that this fall, the studio will let go of leases on three of its 35-plus soundstages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The company paid $21 million last year on the long-term leases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
AI labs including OpenAI and Anthropic have signed leases for more than 10 gigawatts of behind-the-meter power.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
For the most recent quarter, Microsoft spent $41 billion on capital expenditures and finance leases, a lower amount than expected.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Private companies would be granted leases to extract minerals and harvest timber, but they would be required to do so in a restrained, intelligent, sustainable way.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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The $200-million shopping center, which first opened in 2018, is 99% leased, with one-third of the shops are new, including an Italian steakhouse called Spacca Tutto by chef Nancy Silverton and women’s apparel retailer LESET.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The delighted men said they found a large diamond on a plot of land they had leased two years back.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Buyers who have previously leased an EV aren’t eligible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The helicopters were leased from Australia's McDermott Aviation as part of a fleet of 15 aircraft.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Some businessmen from Mobile had leased the land around it, bought the house, and established what Maycomb thought was a private gambling hell.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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The leasing push is led by Tim Hughes, a former Stack Infrastructure executive the company hired this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
This week the company also launched Apple Upgrade, a leasing program that lets US customers pay for an iPhone or other devices in monthly installments.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
A new leasing program for last year’s iPhone 17 implies prices for those devices won’t be reduced when the successor models are released, unlike in years past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Eligibility is open to all Californians buying or leasing their first EV — this is confirmed through a buyer’s attestation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Eighty percent of its leasing arrangements lost money, often vast amounts.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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