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tenanted

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past tense of tenant

as in leased

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Records show the house, completed in 2022 and situated on a hillside parcel close to half an acre, was made available for rent at least twice between August 2025 and March 2026 but was never leased.

— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2026
The other four would be leased at levels targeted to people making 60% of the median income.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026

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Her late parents, Richard and Doris Denney, rented a houseboat for their Bullfrog, Utah, family and explored the waters several times a year.

— Swasti Singhai, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
On my mini moon in Cancun, my husband and I rented a car and ventured to see nearby Mayan ruins.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2026

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The Israeli military seized a 400 square kilometer buffer zone inside Syria after the 2024 collapse of the Assad regime and has occupied it since.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, occupied a space in our global cultural imagination — a figure of American mythology, someone best described as larger-than-life and then a little bit more.

— Maria Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

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