sublet
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“When you sublet your judgment about facts and morals to a rigid ideology, you really surrender your ability to make real moral judgments, and also to make real factual judgments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
A friend will sublet my apartment starting in October.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
The BBC contacted the businessman who rented the property, who says he had sublet it to a builder.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
At one point, he sublet his bedroom in his Brooklyn apartment to a stranger to cover the cost of rent — something to which Alejandro also resorts in “Problemista.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
It had a basement she thought she could sublet for extra income.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Listings Projects, a classified newsletter featuring sublets in New York City, Los Angeles and others creative hubs , is one of the systems that seems poised to grow.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2023
She was inspired by Sam Farrazaino who established Equinox Studios, converting a 30,000-square-foot former factory to sublets for working artisans in Seattle’s Georgetown in 2006.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
She sublets the apartment, and, as is the way of folks with less money, maybe especially queer friends, ends up living there with two other people.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2022
For companies seeking offices, sublets often provide a shorter lease at a steep discount to market prices.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
If he sublets, I shan't have the same control.
From Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Its tenant is subletting the property to a company that is also charging a different local authority thousands of pounds a week.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
That’s a baseline for subletting an apartment, if the rent includes internet.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
This can protect you whether you’re a homeowner renting out a spare room or a renter subletting from someone else.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2025
Neither the subletting nor the storage of flammable materials was legal under the Caltrans lease, but the agency failed time and again to enforce it own rules, the report found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
He was living in Hyde Park, subletting an apartment from a friend.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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