sublets

verb

present tense third-person singular of sublet
as in rents

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  1. rents
  2. leases
  3. hires
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  • Dan Pfoltzer, a 75-year-old school bus driver who rents a small home in Nassau, New York, has been warily watching oil heat prices for months.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • According to Page Six, Earle rents a luxury two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles.
    — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of rents
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  • The company leases office space, including in Hollywood and Culver City, which eventually could be phased out.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Cerebras makes dinner plate-sized ASICs, or a custom microchip built for inference workloads, and leases them from inside its own data centers as a cloud service.
    — Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of leases
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  • Verity can’t finish her book series for mysterious reasons, so Jeremy hires Lowen to do so for her.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Whether that is a potential path forward is impossible to predict until Crane hires a new head of baseball operations.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of hires
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“Sublets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sublets. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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