lease
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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
But what about helping lease a $70,000 vehicle?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Now, I thought, the clubs will be given a new lease on life.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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 so-called “neocloud” company leases data centers to tech giants such as Microsoft, making it a bellwether for the AI trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
MPs on the committee have recommended that in future such leases should prohibit sub-letting, unless specifically agreed with the landlord.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The barons came for the auction of Osage leases, an event that was held about four times a year and that was overseen by the Department of the Interior.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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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
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 family of prominent railroad and oil tycoon Daniel Murphy donated it after his death and the Church leased it to oil developers beginning in the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 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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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 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
As Blackmon notes: “The apparent demise...of leasing prisoners seemed a harbinger of a new day. But the harsher reality of the South was that the new post-Civil War neoslavery was evolving—not disappearing.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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