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was leasing

  • past progressive
    of lease.
    lease
    noun
    a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.

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He merged his xAI artificial intelligence company into SpaceX this year, with the combined entity recently announcing it was leasing computer power to rivals Anthropic and Google at two terrestrial data centers it has constructed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Namely, that the SpaceX-Anthropic deal suggested his AI ambitions were scaling back—even as the filing stressed it was leasing unneeded computing capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Rice was leasing the Lamborghini from The Classic Lifestyle, said Kyle Coker, an attorney for the Dallas-based exotic car rental company.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

They were later moved to a temporary location that the Penn Biden Center was leasing in Chinatown.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023

She waited until she received a check for several hundred dollars from the company that was leasing the drilling rights.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls