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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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  • Equinix, by contrast, rents out space in its facilities to customers of all shapes and sizes that can run servers on a variety of compute platforms, from Nvidia to AMD.
    — Isabel O'Brien,Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The state now rents those beds to ICE for $291 per detainee per day.
    — Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of rents
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  • Quixote, part of the real estate giant Hudson Pacific (which leases Sunset Studios to Netflix), has been in a monthslong effort to reduce its footprint, cut its soundstage leases and hone its fleet business.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Cloud service agreements totaled $29 billion, with data center leases not commenced of $25 billion, equity investments of $25 billion, and capital expenditures of $8 billion.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of leases
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  • In order to solidify his cover in Tehran and throw off the story’s villain, Qasim (Navid Negahban, Kandahar), Tucker hires a young Iranian-American woman, Zara (Bollywood star Elnaaz Norouzi, very good), to pose as his wife.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Every customer-facing member of the retail staff is an optician; when Ahlem hires someone who is not yet qualified, the company funds the training.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of hires
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