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 leaseholder and member of the Social Housing Action Campaign, she believes one social housing flat has been illegally sublet as short-term accommodation.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
On the one hand, you did promise working internet when you agreed to sublet to them.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
It was nothing like the aging, rent-controlled apartment she once sublet in Venice, where she often had to cook using a toaster oven.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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
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
When next I move may it be straight through to glory, where the lease is long and the landlord never sublets.
From Rosemary and Rue by Amber
Nicholas Razo, Santa Fe Springs’ assistant city manager, told The Times that the city had raised concerns with the league about subletting and took action after learning the practice was continuing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Nicholas Razo, assistant city manager, said in a phone interview that the city had previously raised concerns with the league about subletting and took action after learning the practice was continuing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The spokesperson said that "strict rules to limit subletting... prevent the risk of people profiting by letting subsidised affordable housing".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
I’m subletting my apartment in Boulder, Colo., for one year while I’m living in San Diego.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
He was living in Hyde Park, subletting an apartment from a friend.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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