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lease

[lees] / lis /
VERB
rent object, residence
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Other firms, including fund manager Capital Group, have taken advantage of the depressed office market by buying buildings to lease to tenants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Nvidia would provide a financial backstop that would make banks feel more comfortable about lending money, given that OpenAI was on the hook for the lease payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Prime credit score in hand, he bought a more dependable car and finally signed a lease for his own place.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Today the automaker is launching its own ChatGPT app in the U.S., designed to let users get information on local inventory, configure custom vehicles, build lease financing packages and ultimately schedule a test drive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

She signed the lease even though she didn’t have the money in the bank.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

However, Bernstein flagged that the company’s cloud portfolio is anchored by high-quality tenants locked into 15- to 20-year leases.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026

“Solid” tenants with good credit are signing long-term leases, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

The firm - which was majority owned by a private equity company prior to the sale - buys, sells, leases and repairs aircraft, engines and components.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Boost leases its network from AT&T and T-Mobile, according to the Washington, Post but at this stage there’s no certainty that any deal would require their permission.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Most of the records were dry and clinical—expenses, census reports, oil leases.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Arktikugol declined requests to comment for this article through a spokeswoman and barred the Journal from visiting Barentsburg, which is on Norwegian land leased by Russia and subject to private property laws.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, leased and operated by USC, will be a showcase site for the 2028 Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

The Odas leased their grocery to the Charles MacPhersons and sold Charles their car and two pickup trucks.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Perhaps EDW should devote some of its largesse to helicopter leasing going forward.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026

The leasing of data centres alone is costing the company $321.4bn so far this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

The drop in downtown office leasing appears to be waning, Condon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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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