leasing
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“In the worst-case scenario they destroy capital,” he said, while in the best case, the neoclouds will be “cyclical leasing companies.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Anthropic is now leasing the entire facility for more than $1 billion a month.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The companies’ business model has been like catnip to investors because unlike drilling for oil, which requires huge upfront investments, leasing land is capital light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
It would diversify the group’s investment portfolio, and a reliable tenant was committed to leasing the building once it was finished, Peck said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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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For to what purpose should an Historiographer make leasings, if history be a report of plaine trueth?
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
I care no more for such a gillflirt," said the Jester, "than I do for thy leasings.
From Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
They do now but cry: Let us go and make sacrifice to our God, let them be oppressed by labor and exercised that they attend not to leasings.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
He hates fowle leasings, and vile flatterie, Two filthie blots in noble gentrie; And lothefull idlenes he doth detest, The canker worme of everie gentle brest.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
This anecdote led to a long discussion of All those idle thoughts and fantasies, Devices, dreams, opinions unsound, Shows, visions, soothsays, and prophecies, And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies.
From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Sir Walter Scott