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land grab

American  
Or land-grab

noun

  1. the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.


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A native of the Lone Star State, Clarkson made a large land grab in Mansfield, close to where she grew up.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Stock trading has never been bigger, and Texas dreams of a land grab from the duopoly of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

What is clear is that even the fight over a performing arts institution now includes a digital land grab, and the punchline arrived before the branding rollout did.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025

“Worries are certainly not limited to investment in the AI land grab but also profitability for the companies engaged in the most notable capex spend.”

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

The explosion of information technologies has precipitated an intellectual land grab; it must also teach us about both the existence and the value of the public domain.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

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