land grab
noun
variants
or less commonly landgrab
: a usually swift acquisition of property (such as land or patent rights) often by fraud or force
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Critics have also described the legislation as a state land grab that pushes local authorities to the side—criticism that Newsom has rejected.
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
This is a land grab for compute as well as GWs of data center capacity to house those GPUs.
—John Melloy, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Western European leaders and Ukraine cast the war as an imperial-style land grab and have repeatedly vowed to defeat Russian forces.
—CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Stubb also seems to have sensed how to communicate to Trump the extent of Putin’s prospective land grab of Ukraine’s territory.
—Andrea Mitchell, NBC news, 19 Aug. 2025
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
This is a land grab for compute as well as GWs of data center capacity to house those GPUs.
—John Melloy, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Western European leaders and Ukraine cast the war as an imperial-style land grab and have repeatedly vowed to defeat Russian forces.
—CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Stubb also seems to have sensed how to communicate to Trump the extent of Putin’s prospective land grab of Ukraine’s territory.
—Andrea Mitchell, NBC news, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Land grab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land%20grab. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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