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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Yet while there is now a land grab for users between major AI players, questions still linger over how Google will eventually monetize its AI services.
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Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 21 Aug. 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
This was the correct policy: As much as the war in Ukraine is a humanitarian tragedy and a 21st century land grab, the country itself is not so important to U.S. national security interests as to warrant a direct conflict between the United States and Russia, the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Hill could discuss if Putin’s land grab attempts will succeed as ceasefire discussions excel and may also explain why Trump decided against secondary sanctions on Russia’s trading partners amid a bipartisan push from lawmakers in Congress.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 16 Aug. 2025
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Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 21 Aug. 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
This was the correct policy: As much as the war in Ukraine is a humanitarian tragedy and a 21st century land grab, the country itself is not so important to U.S. national security interests as to warrant a direct conflict between the United States and Russia, the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Hill could discuss if Putin’s land grab attempts will succeed as ceasefire discussions excel and may also explain why Trump decided against secondary sanctions on Russia’s trading partners amid a bipartisan push from lawmakers in Congress.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Land grab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land%20grab. Accessed 26 Sep. 2025.
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