sublets

verb

present tense third-person singular of sublet
as in rents

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  1. rents
  2. leases
  3. hires
Verb
  • The state now rents those beds to ICE for $291 per detainee per day.
    — Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
  • However, CoreWeave, which buys and rents out graphics processors from Nvidia and other chipmakers, hiked prices across its inventory by 25% in July to soften the impact of rising GPU costs on its margins, per Ramnani.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of rents
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  • 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
  • According to a brief biography on the college website, Tracy Caruso is the owner and president of Delray Beach Executive Suites, which leases office space to businesses.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of leases
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  • Lucie, having exhausted all other possibilities, and needing Darnay in order to find her father, hires a very reluctant Carton, who in a trick worthy of Perry Mason, gets him off when a witness cannot tell him and Darnay apart.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Ironically, that only clicks into focus when Lester hires a handsome indigenous boy named Jimmy (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai) to be the woman of the house.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of hires
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“Sublets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sublets. Accessed 9 Sep. 2026.

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