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lease

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


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In August, the company signed a 20-year lease with a global hyperscale customer for the first 50 megawatt phase of the Tsukuba Tech Central data-center campus in Greater Tokyo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

It said its lease price made the location unsustainable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Anthropic also plans to buy or lease up to $271.3 billion worth of Google’s tensor processing units through 2033.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

A luckless Peruvian town that has for centuries been dismissed as cursed is hoping for a new lease on life when Pope Leo visits this month.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

For lease signs sat in front of many of the offices around the parking lot.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

Mr. Specht claims that this local squabble over farm leases soon spread across the nation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

She was considering moving into an apartment for her sophomore year, and I had to work through complications about leases, providing an allowance and related expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

CoreWeave makes money largely by signing up creditworthy tech companies to leases for AI computing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Because the least valued oil leases were offered first, the barons usually lingered in the back, leaving the initial bidding to upstarts.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

We got backhoes and dozers already leased, and now they gotta sit.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

“I literally have people saying, ‘I am not leasing this car again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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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