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
Northern California, where she grew up, offers less hectic living, with family nearby and a proper house rather than an illegal basement sublet.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
A retired foster parent, Hassan says he rented his home to a local business owner and allowed him to sublet it to others.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
On the one hand, you did promise working internet when you agreed to sublet to them.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
In their luxurious sublet in Ann Arbor, Mia had taken various pieces of her hosts’ furniture apart and arranged the components—bolts as thick as her finger, unvarnished crossbeams, disembodied feet—into animals.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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
Most of Climeworks’s 60 employees work in a big industrial space in downtown Zurich, on two floors of a low-slung building that the company sublets from a German aerospace firm.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2019
He does not take the rooms of the Inn direct, but as we do, from one who has several sets on a long lease, and sublets the rooms.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir
The people subletting have started complaining about random stuff, and I’m not sure how much to appease them.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
More than a third of the money clawed back related to fraudulent activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, with other cash being recouped from unlawful council tax claims and illegal subletting of social housing.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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
“We were just subletting our apartment,” said Ewald, explaining that she expected to return to New York after the Empty Space gig.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
He was living in Hyde Park, subletting an apartment from a friend.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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