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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This is a land grab in the name of conservation, Nitin Rai, a fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, told the outlet.
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Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 15 Apr. 2026
The war for attention has led to a boom in clipping, with some creators vying for a Netflix-billboards-on-Sunset-level land grab.
—Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
The parallels between their data center land grab now and the shale oil boom-and-bust cycle of the 2010s are striking to longtime commodities analyst Jeff Currie, who is now at Carlyle.
—Kelly Evans, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
It’s also inspired an infrastructure land grab perhaps unprecedented in financial breadth.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
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Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 15 Apr. 2026
The war for attention has led to a boom in clipping, with some creators vying for a Netflix-billboards-on-Sunset-level land grab.
—Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
The parallels between their data center land grab now and the shale oil boom-and-bust cycle of the 2010s are striking to longtime commodities analyst Jeff Currie, who is now at Carlyle.
—Kelly Evans, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
It’s also inspired an infrastructure land grab perhaps unprecedented in financial breadth.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Land grab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land%20grab. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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