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
The Israeli security establishment opposes this land grab.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
Besides providing abundant electricity for surface operations, a nuclear reactor on the moon could also allow for a strategic lunar land grab.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 4 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
The Israeli security establishment opposes this land grab.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
Besides providing abundant electricity for surface operations, a nuclear reactor on the moon could also allow for a strategic lunar land grab.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Land grab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land%20grab. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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