How to Use land grab in a Sentence
land grab
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Over 20 years after Mesa attempted a land grab near an intersection of its downtown, a housing and retail project has now gotten underway.
—Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2024
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So far the land grab has paid off for the early movers.
—Lara Korte, WSJ, 19 June 2018
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There is a new land grab going on in the oil-rich fields of West Texas.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
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The United States is in the middle of a sports betting land grab.
—Christopher Smith, al, 13 Mar. 2020
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In his writings, Braulio Castellanos said this set off a land grab.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
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But the pandemic prompted a Western land grab, with moguls fleeing the cities for homes on the range.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
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There has been a new land grab in Africa under the guise of foreign investment.
—Boniface Mwangi, Quartz, 18 Sep. 2019
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Kyiv and the West call this a baseless pretext for an aggressive land grab.
—Reuters, NBC News, 24 July 2022
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This is a grubby land grab with just about as much sordidness of the Teapot Dome affair.
—Tim Hogan, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
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The saga of Richardson Flat land grab is a reminder that the public’s business is best done in public.
—Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
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This is the greatest land grab in the history of media ever.
—Eric Johnson, Recode, 6 Dec. 2018
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One man at a meeting, Russell said, suggested that a name change was akin to a land grab.
—The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
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Many of the residents who spoke at the meetings described the project as an excessive land grab that would take away from the small town feel of Boerne.
—Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
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For Facebook, building out the metaverse is just the next move in a years-long land grab for our online attention.
—Lauren Goode, Wired, 28 Oct. 2021
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Biden promised that the U.S., along with its allies and partners, would not let any support for Putin's land grab go unpunished.
—Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2022
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Critics of the Russian church call it a spiritual land grab.
—Alan Cullison, WSJ, 31 July 2022
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Uber’s investment in Lime is part of a furious land grab in the transportation world.
—Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 9 July 2018
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But right now, the status quo is akin to a land grab, with agents and reps focused on the feeding frenzy the table offers upfront right now.
—Angus Finney, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
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That said, using a global pandemic as an excuse for a man-cave land grab is gross.
—John Hodgman, New York Times, 8 July 2021
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That has set off a land grab between the 27-nation bloc and the U.K. for lucrative financial transactions and the jobs and clout that come with them.
—Simon Clark, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
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Many Africans regard the land grabs as Mugabe’s crowning achievement.
—Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
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Some Barbudans smell a rat, a land grab that could lead to large-scale development.
—The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2017
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But the Buddhists’ joy in August has given way to fears of land grabs, a loss of trade and damage to the fragile ecosystem of the region’s high-altitude deserts.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
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Finding any available empty plots in a land grab that’s been running since the 17th century.
—Kathryn O'Shea Evans, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
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Love letters are not a new phenomenon, but the unprecedented land grab this year means the trend has flipped.
—Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
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Ruiz de Burton wrote the novel to push back against the negative stereotypes the squatters used to justify their land grab.
—Esther Allen, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
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The Crimean land grab also robbed Russia of the chance to act as a balancing force between America and China.
—chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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Some have criticized the 30 by 30 plan as a federal land grab, but statements around the plan show the goal could be achieved through a patchwork of public and private land.
—Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 15 Mar. 2021
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Once Spanos announced The Decision, Faulconer tried to replace football with a land grab dressed up in futbol wrapping that was in the works for many months.
—Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Sep. 2017
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Wagner assault teams helped Russia execute a final land grab in eastern Ukraine in 2015.
—Paul Sonne, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
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