rack-rent

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Verb
  • Healy asked at the committee meeting whether the village had investigated renting screens when needed.
    Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Colocation data centers involve renting space for servers and computing hardware rather than relying on in-house or private facilities.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Since hiring French manager Wilfried Nancy in 2023, the Crew have been consistently pleasing to the eye.
    Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • When evaluating an investment, Elliott also hires specialty and general management consultants, expert cost analysts and industry specialists.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Comprising nearly 463,000 acres of private and leased public land centered on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, the American Prairie reserve is decidedly un-tropical, a rolling shortgrass prairie that stretches out to the horizon, punctuated by smatterings of trees and rocky buttes.
    Adam Roy, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The legal action was brought in federal court in San Francisco, seeking damages for individuals who purchased or leased Tesla vehicles equipped with Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot, or Full Self-Driving features since 2016.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Her boyfriend was hoping to raise over $227,000 to help charter a medical air ambulance back to Germany, since a normal flight was not her safest option.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The Titanic’s owner, the White Star Line, chartered the Mackay-Bennett, a steamer normally used for repairing trans-Atlantic telegraph cables, to retrieve as many bodies as possible.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Rack-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rack-rent. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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