as in greed
an intense selfish desire for wealth or possessions
that period of the 19th century when the graspingness of the robber barons knew no bounds is often called the Gilded Age
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The political and economic geography of the copperbelt, the mining zone that snakes under Katanga and northern Zambia, has been fashioned by external forces and outside greed since at least the time of Belgian colonization.—
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Industry is where innocence goes to die, choked out in bed by various personifications of greed.—
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“Graspingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graspingness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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