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rack-rent

verb

Definition of rack-rent

as in to rent

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Google and Microsoft were both in talks with Nscale to rent AI computing capacity from the company’s massive data center project in West Virginia — a lease that ultimately went to Anthropic, a person familiar with the matter told Semafor.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Carly keeps taking her new passion further, apparently spending all her tuition money on shooting a music video and renting a venue for a live performance plus merch and catering.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

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In December, Nvidia bought assets from the AI chip startup for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record and hired Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra and a group of engineers.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
After reviewing cellphone videos, investigators hired by BART concluded that Pirone pushed Grant against a wall, struck him in the head and kneed him in the face.

— Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026

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In San Francisco, AI companies made up 58% of all leasing in the first half of this year and have accounted for 30% of leasing activity, totaling about 10 million square feet, since 2023, according to CBRE.

— Diana Olick, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
Broadway producer Zev Buffman leased it for several years before buying it in 1966, only to sell it to actor Eddie Bracken four years later.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of lease

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Our hunting and conservation editor and his buddies chartered a helicopter to fly into an area of public land that was surrounded by private ranches.

— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2026
The twin-engine Cessna was operated by Security Aviation and had been chartered to fly from Anchorage to Cape Newenham, located about 40 miles south of Goodnews Bay, according to KTUU.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026

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