lease
noun
was leasing
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past progressiveof lease.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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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
A man named Anestin Predestin told the Miami Herald that in late February 2024, he was leasing out space in the container.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
Three years ago, Water Asset Management purchased a farm from a landowner who was leasing land to Bernal, who farms alfalfa, corn and other crops north of Fruita.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
He was leasing in the Fairfax district when a couple of young publishers, Steve Samiof and Melanie Nissen, who ran a punk zine called Slash, moved in next door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2020
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
