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Spears had sublet her New York apartment while she was on a national tour with Ailey; when much of the tour was canceled, she moved in with her parents in Tampa.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2020

Garrido said she had sublet the second floor to a woman calling herself Rayda Oscate and that she had no idea the woman was Iparraguirre, the girlfriend of Peru's most-wanted man.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2017

The name of the supposed leaseholder was Raymond Kelly, who the occupants claimed had sublet the building to them.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

The next summer, Hiss went on, he had sublet his apartment to Crosley, since he had already moved into a house on Georgetown's P Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

M. Arman had turned to another member of the Legislative Assembly, a sound Bonapartist like himself, M. Voruz, of Nantes, to whom he had sublet a part of the Confederate contract.

From The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)